Sermon
From Failure to Faith
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
December 15, 2025 · 39 min
Summary
Abraham and Sarah's struggle with infertility leads them to take matters into their own hands by having Abraham sleep with Hagar, resulting in Ishmael's birth. Through Hagar's experience of abandonment and divine encounter, the passage teaches that pain either weakens faith through human control or strengthens it through surrender to God.
Highlights
When pain deepens, faith wavers. In fact, I would say to you that pain is often the cause of failures of faith.
Your faith can either weaken or it can strengthen. Pain can root you deeper with the Lord or it can uproot your faith.
God is actually attracted to weakness. God is drawn to vulnerability. And so if you find yourself at that place, you're not at a bad place, you're actually at a place where God can move in a great way in your life.