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Sunday's Devotion: Chosen People

Sunday's Devotion: Chosen People

Genesis 21

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A Bible story… God promised a childless man that he would have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. But the man’s aging wife was so desperate to see this unlikely promise come true that she encouraged him to conceive a child with one of her slaves. Things went badly, and the pregnant slave ran away into the wilderness. But an angel reassur…

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