In the first reading, God calls Abram to be a migrant, commanding him to leave his home and travel to an unknown land. If he fulfills this divine command, Abram is to be blessed with a great ...

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.

God calls Abram in faith to pick up and leave “your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you” (12:1). This is not modern-day America nor is there ...