Sarah, Hagar, Abraham and a Mother’s Day Talk Audio Recording

Here is the audio of me speaking at my church on Mother’s Day a few years ago. The links on my website to various talks I have given over the years are either not working anymore or require a subscription to access. So, to those of you who have been trying to access an audio recording, I apologize and give you this instead.

In my talk I look at the wealthy, privileged, and beautiful yet childless Sarah, the poor, immigrant, working mom Hagar, along with Abraham, the patriarch who linked these two very different women into their life as one blended but dysfunctional family. Infertility, class differences, cultural pressures, and ancient marriage contracts surface to shed light on our own struggles to live out our lives as women.

Happy listening!

“A Woman and Her God”

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What I Learned from the Perfect Wife: Sarah, Abraham and 1 Peter 3:1-6

I’ve mentioned this here before, but my marriage went through a radical transformation a number of years ago. For a long time my husband and I tried to work out our relationship according to traditional biblical marriage teachings, with him leading and me submitting.

We were committed to this path since we thought it was the way a Christian marriage should function, even though we ended up far more frustrated than happy. Then about ten years ago we went through a crisis that brought all of our unhealthy relational patterns to the surface. At that point we either had to figure out how to change or face the possibility of losing everything we had worked toward for so long.

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