In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Why does God call Abraham “my friend”? (Isaiah 41:8) Because Abraham introduced his friends to the imageless, formless One. His friends joined Sarah and Abraham in prayer each and every new moon.

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call. Pieter Lastman, “Abraham on the Way to Canaan ...

But they, like Abraham, are called to recognize that God — not they — is “the Lord and Giver of Life.” Do we? Titian’s great painting, “Sacrificio di Isacco” [The Sacrifice of Isaac ...

By R.A. Mathews He was special to God, a man who lived six centuries before the birth of Christ. The Lord called him “son of ...

Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur’an 2:124, & Genesis 16:1-16 9:9-21) and calling on ...

In addition to calls for gratitude, Lincoln and Seward call on Americans to offer “humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience,” and to ask God to care for widows, orphans ...