Ishmael comes up very little in the Bible, and yet, in what does come up, he’s an amazingly interesting character: -conceived in strange circumstances -abandoned by his father, and nearly by his mother -saved in the wilderness by God -destined to be the father of a great nation -and (not in today’s reading, but) despite [...]
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Today we’re taking a moment out of time, so to speak, and considering Ishmael’s whole life… which there isn’t much of in Scripture. Most of what we know from the Bible is in today’s reading (the other piece is that Ishmael comes back and helps bury Abraham when he dies). I’m not going to say [...]
