"Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."GENESIS 21:12+The Power of the Word[The apostle Paul] postulates a threefold progeny of Abraham. The first is physical and without the promise concerning ...  Read More

[Sarah] said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."GENESIS 21:10+Inheritance and CovenantWhat [Sarah] says about the...  Read More

Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.GENESIS 21:8+Celebrating the Lord's KindnessThis was not a feast of frivolous men. No, it was a feast of the saintliest fathers, who thanked...  Read More

Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me." And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old ...  Read More

Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. GENESIS 21:4+As God CommandedAbraham assigns the name to his son by divine authority, for the angel of the Lord ...  Read More

The LORD visited Sarah as He had said. . .. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.GENESIS 21:1, 3+The Source of JoyMoses is very wordy in this passage. He ...  Read More

Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, 'There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'"GENESIS 20:11+The Weakness of a SaintAlthough Abraham is full of fa...  Read More

Abimelech had not approached [Sarah]. So he said, "Lord, will You kill an innocent people? Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' "GENESIS 20:4-5+T...  Read More

From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.GENESIS 20:1+A Lodging Place for the NightThe prophets and other saints pond...  Read More

[Lot's firstborn said to her sister,] "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father."GENESIS 19:32+No One Is BetterYou will ask: "B...  Read More

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow.GENESIS 19:29+The Prayer of a BelieverWhat Moses has here added about...  Read More

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.GENESIS 19:26+Departing from God's CommandLot's wife is held up to us as an example by Christ's teaching, for He refers to her ...  Read More