ne of the many confirmations of the trustworthiness of the Bible is the way the Bible treats its heroes. Instead of whitewashing their mistakes and portraying them as saints, the Bible tells their entire stories, defects and all. And that's certainly true for Abraham.

Even though Abraham is called the friend of God, even though he's the father of the Jewish nation, even though he's included in the New Testament as the supreme example of faith, he had some tremendous character deficiencies and made some tremendous mistakes in his life. That ought to be an encouragement to us because if God can use Abraham, God can use anybody
Walking By Faith Personal and Group Study Guide, A Study of the Life of Abraham-Robert Jeffress
 
Dr. Jeffress is senior pastor of the sixteen-thousand-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, and a Fox News contributor.
He is also an adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Dr. Jeffress has made more than four thousand guest appearances on various radio and television programs and regularly appears on major mainstream media outlets such as Fox News Channel's Fox b Friends, Hannity, Fox News @ Night, Varney & Co., and Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream, as well as HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Dr. Jeffress is the author of more than thirty books, including When Forgiveness Doesn't Make Sense, Countdown to the Apocalypse, Not All Roads Lead to Heaven, A Place Called Heaven, Choosing the Extraordinary Life, Courageous, Invincible,
18 Minutes with Jesus, and What Every Christian Should Know.