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  • By faith, Abraham – 1

    a series on Abram or Abraham You have heard it: “BY FAITH ABRAHAM..” and you know it from Scripture. Abram was blessed by God, called on to leave his ancestral home on a journey to a promised land. By faith Abraham believed God that his own son would inherit the promises of God’s covenant. But…

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  • Abram: Sheikh of Ur

    Why would I call Abram a Sheikh? (That’s probably not how you think of the Abraham of the Bible account.) Terah took Abram his son … and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. – Genesis 11:31…

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    Photo of 2 sheiks. شيوخ šuyūḫ [ʃuju:x])—also transliterated sheekh, sheik, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and shaikh—is an honorific title in the Arabic language.