Sermons on Arranged Marriage
Genesis 24: 1-33
Faithfulness in the Ordinary SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: In our study of Genesis, we come today to the longest single episode in the life of Abraham—the search for a wife for his son Isaac—but as a preacher I had to really wrestle with what to do with this text. I’m not into telling stories for the sake of stories, even wonderful love stories like this one. And I’m unwilling to allegorize the story looking for some super-spiritual meaning, as some have done,…