{"id":5069,"date":"2023-06-21T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:11:05","slug":"5069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ishmael<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Genesis 21:8-21<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham loved both his boys;<br>Sarah spurned the elder son.<br>Sarah wanted the second born<br>to inherit and grow the family business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the fair-minded father, it was disturbing<br>to learn the younger Isaac was his heir.<br>The scandal of election seemed unfair\u2014<br>chosenness kicked Ishmael to the curb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham sent Ishmael away,<br>but God continued to watch the boy.<br>The Lord made a great nation of him<br>and honors his descendants to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fourth Sunday after Pentecost<\/strong><br>June 25, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishmael Genesis 21:8-21 Abraham loved both his boys;Sarah spurned the elder son.Sarah wanted the second bornto inherit and grow the family business. For the fair-minded father, it was disturbingto learn the younger Isaac was his heir.The scandal of election seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=5069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}