The Akedah Total Surrender

Through Abraham’s binding of Isaac in Genesis 22, Pastor Brandon Holthaus asks the piercing question: What is the “Isaac” in your life that you haven’t surrendered to God yet?

Pastor Brandon Holthaus takes listeners to Genesis 22 — the Akedah, or the binding of Isaac — to explore what total surrender to God demands at its most extreme. Abraham’s willingness to lay his most precious blessing on the altar becomes the lens through which Holthaus challenges every believer to examine the “Isaacs” in their own lives: the things held most tightly and not yet placed on God’s altar. Recorded live at Rock Harbor Church in Bakersfield, CA, this full Sunday morning sermon is a theologically rich and personally challenging call to radical, costly obedience.