Sarah doubted to the point that she believed God didn’t want her to have children. She and Abraham once again became convinced that God needed help fulfilling the promise.

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?

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 ...

We would do well to begin by imitating Abraham's example: listening to God's instruction and obeying even when God's call may seem to run counter to the promise of success.

We know Abraham and Sarah were already promised by God to beget children miraculously in their old age and parent a great nation, even without the experience between Sarah and Avimelech.

Through sacrifice and unwavering faith, Abraham’s covenant with God prefigures the greater fulfillment in Christ, as depicted in sacred art through the ages.

We stand today, like Abraham, atop the mountain, facing the delicate challenge of reconciling morality and prophecy.

After all, the man waited 25 years to receive his promised son, only to have God ask him to sacrifice the young lad on an altar. In an act of unwavering faith in God’s promise, Abraham obeyed.