Hagar's Resilience and Trust

This is a tough story. Hagar shows up in Genesis 16, but it's in a context where, as we talked about in the last couple episodes, Abraham and Sarah have been promised a child, an offspring, but they're old. Then there's a delay. And that's the problem. Sarah had an Egyptian slave named Hagar. So she said to Abraham, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my slave. Perhaps I can build a family through her." In Episode 3 of Character Study, journalist Jon Fortt and pastor David Tieche delve into Hagar's pain and hope, and explore how God's promise to her illuminates His character.