I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In ...

First of all, in Isaiah 41:8, Abraham is called by God “my friend.” (See also 2 Chronicles 20:7.) How did Abraham become God’s friend? He did so the way anyone becomes friends with someone else.

This is part of the reason Abraham is called to leave his homeland to travel to the Promised Land. God wanted him to leave his idolatry behind. He is called to become faithful by entering into ...

Abraham. He passed the test, proving he fears God. In Exodus 3:4, God calls Moses name twice because of the elevation he was being called to do. In verse 10, God tells him that he will go to ...

And he built there an altar to the Lord and he called out in the name of the ... Fascinatingly, God commands Abraham to leave his country, his birthplace and his father’s house to travel to ...

the Catechism highlights and points us to the patriarch Abraham: “In his indefectible covenant with every living creature, God has always called people to prayer. But it is above all beginning ...

But a question remains. Why did God call on Abraham to challenge Him? Was there anything Abraham knew that God didn’t know? That idea is absurd. The answer is surely this: Abraham was to become ...

Abraham is called Ibrahim by Muslims ... had problems trying to understand God and trying to discover God; being restless, knowing that perhaps the Pagan environment which he was in did not ...