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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In an act of unwavering faith in God’s promise, Abraham obeyed. ... it’s true — there is hardly a better story in the Bible on God’s grace pursuing his rebel children than the story of Jacob.

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 ...

Adaklu Kodzobi (V/R), March 17, GNA – Miss Betty Deh, a 15-year-old form three student of the Adaklu Kodzobi Junior High School, has encouraged Christians to remain focused on the promises of ...