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A Perspective on Thanksgiving Redemption or renewal is at the heart of every great story. Renewal is “an instance of resuming an activity or state after an interruption .”~Oxford Dictionary Renewal: “to make like new : restore to freshness, vigor, or perfection” ~Merriam Webster Dictionary Each of these…

This is a spin-off movie – where the main character, Jacob, is lying low. Joseph’s not one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Israel. Continuation from Jacob story – the narrative of the people of Israel. An explanation of why the Israelites ended up in Egypt. Three weeks to divide up the story. Many of us…

JOSEPH Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore. Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph…

And He Settled Torah: Gen. 37:1-40:23 Haftarah: Amos 2.6-3.8 Gospel: Matt 1.18-25 INTRODUCTION: After the promise of the seed of the woman The Book of Genesis is about the FIRSTBORN Is this the one who was promised? Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel—he was indeed the firstborn, but because…

Joseph 3 Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age. And he made him an elaborately embroidered coat. 4 When his brothers realized that their father loved him more than them, they grew to hate him—they wouldn’t even speak to him. 5 Joseph had a dream.…

Leader Guide CSB, Unit 4, Session 1 © 2018 LifeWay Christian Resources, Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser, edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A. God Redeems Betrayal Summary and Goal In this session, we will see that Jacob’s favoritism did not stop with…

Redeeming Son If you been a Christian for any amount of Time you know that sometimes things don’t work out the way you want them to, but often they work out better b/c of God’s hand in and on your life. I’m not sure how many of you know the story of how God called me to pastor you here, but it’s a story…

One of the most misquoted verses in scripture is found in Jeremiah 29:11 ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord , ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. This passage of scripture is given to Jeremiah for the people of Israel that will be going…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

Finding God’s Favor 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land; God’s Favorite? 11 For God does not show favoritism. 34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism God shows no favoritism or partiality 3 Now Israel loved…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

Exodus 34:14 14 You must worship no other gods, for the Lord , whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you. A strong feeling of possessiveness, often caused by the possibility that something which belongs, or ought to belong, to one is about to be taken away. The…

ME: There’s a cultural phenomenon going on in our world today called “cancel culture”. What it says is that if you express views that are contrary to those acceptable by a particular group - whether that be a group of friends, a business, a media channel, a government official, you can be locked out…

We are back in our study of the book of Genesis today. In our series THE PROMISE, we come to Genesis chapter 19 today. If you have read the text or are familiar with the story, you can probably understand why I’m always tempted to focus on the sin of the outsiders in texts like this. They are so obvious…

That may Some things to notice: The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Most of us read this verse and we probably don’t think much about what we read. But if you were a Jew, the word LORD would spark all sorts…

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where…

The waiting game What about me? There is a danger in reading a text like we have today. Abram and Sarai were pagan’s. Spent years going against God’s will. Yet God blesses them The temptation when we look at someone like Abram is “What about me? ” I come to church, I try to do the right things… i”m not…

Pentateuch The story of how God restored mankind, lovingly and graciously redeeming them out of sin’s slavery and raising up a people though whom He would touch the whole world. Pentateuch is crucial to the rest of the Old Testament and the whole Bible Pentateuch means “5 Books”. It is the Book of the…

Michelle and I have been watching a series on Amazon Prime called Poldark… it’s based on a series of books written back in the 1940’s about a family in London around the late 1700s. Every episode is full of conflict but back then they handled conflict very differently than we do today. It’s hard to tell…

Troubles come at us many times like the tides coming in. The tide just keeps coming and coming. How many of you have experienced that? Today we are going to look at one of my favorite characters in the Bible… Joseph. His story is important to the point that it takes 14 chapters in Genesis to tell it.…

Hope everyone has had a happy and safe 4th. Independence Day - Everyone is under someone. We didn’t declare independence and set up no government/source of law. We created our own government and our own laws. 9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed…

Discussion Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. And Joseph dreamed a…

Good morning! Welcome to our 80’s Kick off - Im’s stoked about today... Big thanks to Sondra, Tiffany and Melinda and Pam getting this ready for the after party in fellowship hall… it going to be outrageous. . And for those of you who are visiting and didn’t get the memo. This is not normally how we…

Breakdown of Genesis As you can see, a very large portion of Genesis is devoted to the life of Joseph. Approximate number of words — (includes chapter and verse numbers — pretty close) Creation through tower of Babel — 3,553 Abraham — 4,602 Isaac — 842 Jacob — 4,487 Joseph — 5,850 Joseph’s trouble started…

Sibling rivalries have existed from the dawn of time. My brother and I are not much different. He is very smart, more feisty than I am, and three years younger. However, he did not mix well with the way we do school in this country. Poor guy had to have the same teachers I had four years earlier and…