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Podcast: Rotten Apple Seeds
Episode: Sermon for Proper 7, Year A, June 25, 2023
Description: Here is today's sermon, Proper 7, Year A, June 25, 2023. It is based on the reading from the Hebrew Scriptures, Genesis 21:8-21. It is the story of Abraham dismissing his slave Hagar and her son Ishmael. This is the woman with whom Abraham first had a child after the Lord promised in the covenant that Abraham would be the father of nations. After his wife Sarah had a child Isaac, she wanted to get rid of Hagar and Ishmael.
I make the point that the life of faith is often a paradox, or topsy-turvy. Just like...