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When We Listen – December 4, 2024 – Genesis 24:1-9
Read with Me Genesis 24:1-9 (HCSB) Abraham was now old, getting on in years, and the LORD had blessed him in everything. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, and I will have you swear by...
When We Listen – December 3, 2024 – Genesis 23:1-20
Read with Me Genesis 23:1-20 (HCSB) Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. Then Abraham got up from beside his dead...
When We Listen – December 2, 2024 – Genesis 22:15-24
Read with Me Genesis 22:15-24 (HCSB) Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said, “By Myself I have sworn,” this is the LORD’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son, I will indeed bless...
When We Listen – November 29, 2024 – Genesis 22:9-14
Read with Me Genesis 22:9-14 (HCSB) When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to...
When We Listen – November 26, 2024 – Genesis 22:4-8
Read with Me Genesis 22:4-8 (HCSB) On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.” Abraham took the wood...
When We Listen – November 25, 2024 – Genesis 22:1-3
Read with Me Genesis 22:1-3 (HCSB) After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. “Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of...
When We Listen – November 21, 2024 – Genesis 21:22-34
Read with Me Genesis 21:22-34 (HCSB) At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and...
When We Listen – November 20, 2024 – Genesis 21:14-21
Read with Me Genesis 21:14-21 (HCSB) Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left...
When We Listen – November 16, 2024 – Genesis 21:8-13
Read with Me Genesis 21:8-13 (HCSB) The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son mocking—the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham. So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son,...
When We Listen – November 11, 2024 – Genesis 21:1-7
Read with Me Genesis 21:1-7 (HCSB) The LORD came to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him. Abraham named his son who was born to...