Again, God didn’t reject Abraham and Sarah for doubting His promise. Thirteen years after Ishmael’s birth and 23 years after the first promise, God again reaffirmed the good news of the promise.

Like Abraham, we must believe that God will fulfill his promises regardless of our circumstances, for success is assured to those who love God (Rom. 8:28). To offer our children to God is to agree ...

AMONG the grave sins condemned by Jesus himself is leading children astray. As he said in the Gospel of Saint Matthew (Mt ...

What God promises seems too good to be true. Abraham, we are told, “fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give ...

Abraham not only purchased the one plot, but the entire Land. In fact it is a yet another example of how Abraham honors the property rights of non-Jews despite God’s Promise.

No, promises God. Abraham’s descendants will outnumber the stars of heaven (imagine what that looked like to a man in the middle of a desert without light pollution). And Abraham believed him ...

The promise to Abraham by God was already several years old and had yet to be fulfilled. Only after Abraham prayed for Avimelech, the Torah makes it a point to tell us Sarah conceived immediately.

The illustration does not depict the sacrifice that established the covenant but, rather, God’s promises to Abraham in that covenant. Abram is shown coming out of an open door … his house, his ...

In an act of unwavering faith in God’s promise, Abraham obeyed. Even though the patriarch did show weaknesses throughout his life, his submission and commitment to Jehovah exceeded his weaknesses.