Genesis 18-23 Part 1 • Dr. Carli Anderson • Feb. 23 - Mar. 1 • Come, Follow Me

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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What happens when we read the stories of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar through an ancient lens instead of modern assumptions? Dr. Carli Anderson joins hosts Hank Smith and John Bytheway to explore the legal, and linguistic depth of these foundational narratives, revealing Sarah’s majesty, Hagar’s complexity, and the deeply personal, covenant-centered relationship God forms with each of them. SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS English: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT209EN French: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT20...

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0:00.0	Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.
0:04.3	A name change in the ancient world, this is something that happens in scriptures fairly frequently.
0:10.5	It also is something that would happen in ancient ritual.
0:14.0	Again, I'm going to take us to the cultural context.
0:16.4	In fact, a lot of times it would happen in what I would call coronation ritual,
0:22.6	which is a ritual that makes a king a king or a queen to queen. It marks a change of status. It marks a change
0:28.9	of where you are, but I think here too it marks a change in spiritual growth.
0:38.0	Hello, my friends.
0:39.3	Welcome to another episode of Follow Him.
0:41.4	My name's Hank Smith.
0:42.4	I'm your host.
0:43.2	I'm here with my co-host, John, by the way, whom God hath made to laugh.
0:49.1	John, that is Genesis 20, verse 6.
0:52.5	Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. Don't you feel like that's you,
0:56.9	John? God made you to laugh. I think people have laughed at me my whole life. That must be what it
1:02.4	means. Laugh with me or at me. I'm okay either way. I wonder how many people out there have thought
1:09.9	these two laugh too much.
1:12.0	Well, we can quote Genesis 20.
1:14.2	Godeth made me to laugh.
1:15.7	Now, John, I'm actually not sure it means what we think it means.
1:18.8	We have an expert here to let us know if it actually does.
1:22.4	Her name is Dr. Carly Anderson.
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