Abraham is regarded by Jews as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people. This article examines his life, times and significance. The history of the Jewish people begins in Bronze Age times in the ...
To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to man and ...
Terah, the father of Abram, moved his family from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran on the way to Canaan. After his father died in Haran, “the Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people, and your ...
This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...
Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism. Abraham ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Christians, we sometimes live below-average lives. Being people of God is construed by many to be sweatier, heavier and burdensome. Many are the times that people tell us that ...
“It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. And even when he ...
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, the legacy of Abraham. Muslims, Jews, and Christians all tell the Abraham story, with its chilling account of God’s command to Abraham to kill his own son. Today, scholars ...