The great thing about cookbooks is that you inevitably find some great recipe that you enjoy for the rest of your life. I hope that it is a recipe that you will eventually make your own. In this grand passage we see the long anticipated birth of Isaac to the 90 years old Sarah and the 100 year old Abraham. It is a glorious day in Abraham's household. Tony Campolo has written, Joy in Christ requires a commitment to working at the Christian lifestyle.
Salvation comes as a gift, but the joy of salvation demands disciplined action.
Most Christians I know have just enough of the Gospel to make them miserable, but not enough to make them joyful. If so, you need desperately to hear what this passage teaches us today. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him . What the Lord promises, he delivers. God promised Abraham and Sarah that they would have a child . . .