[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

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.GENESIS 19:23-24+Salvation and DestructionLet us comfort ou...  Read More