Loving Hagar

Oct 20, 2023    Thailer Jimerson

a sermon about Hagar,

human nature, and learning

to love the stranger.


Scripture: Genesis 21.14-21

(Additional Reading: Genesis 16.1-16, 15.13; Deuteronomy 10.18-19, 14.28-29; Exodus 22.21-24; Psalm 68.4-5)


“you, too”






“them, too”






make space for the stranger






“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”

- Walter Brueggemann -