To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

Genesis 12:1-2 God instructed Abraham to leave his home ... uncircumcised male… shall have his soul cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. — Genesis 17:11-14 Abraham kept this ...

They cut this covenant with blood and usually ... is the initiator and keeper of that covenant. God made covenants with Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, and David. But the greatest covenant of all ...

We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, technically, Abram’s) life: God made a covenant with him. Having led him out of his homeland to an unknown foreign land, God now enters ...

Abraham was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a covenant with God. The first part of the covenant is known as the promised land and can be found in Genesis 12:1, where Abraham is ...

God instructed Abraham to leave his home and travel to Canaan, the Promised Land. Canaan was an ancient country close to modern-day Israel. In contrast with Abraham's home, Canaan was an arid ...

Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: author. His novel "The Covenant ... "After that, God willing, it gets better." ...

The term covenant refers to a promise or agreement which is made between two people or groups of people. Judasim teaches that covenants were made between God and Noah, Abraham and Moses.

Abraham is an important figure in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The story of Abraham can be found in the Book of Genesis - the first book in the Christian Bible and in the Torah of Judaism.