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The Bible tells one true story from beginning to end, and it’s helpful to remember that it all fits together. As we begin Exodus, we have moved on about 400 years (remember the promise to Abraham that his descendants would be servants in a foreign land 15:13) but the promises are still being worked out.…

Where there’s a will there’s a…fight! Sadly siblings sometimes fall out over the will of a deceased parent. When Jacob dies, the brothers are not arguing over money and possessions but they are fearful that Joseph might have only been kind to them for the sake of their father. Now he is gone, will Joseph…

How do you cope with losing a wife? And then a son when he’s just 17? Or how about falling out with your brother so that you have flee from home. That’s just some of the heartache Jacob faced. In Genesis 48 he reveals how he got through “the God who has been my shepherd…

How can you be free from bitterness towards those who have hurt you? What about those who have really hurt you? Joseph had been sold as a slave by his own brothers, it had been a choice between killing him and making a bit of money out of him and they had gone for the…

There’s something about admitting you’re wrong. It’s hard to do, but what beautiful change can come about. When the brothers return with Benjamin and the silver cup ends up in Benjamin’s sack, Judah – acknowledges his guilt (44:16). Of course they are not actually guilty of stealing the cup, but Judah seems to be recognising…

The way they treated him was wrong. It looked like they weren’t too bothered by it, but deep down they knew it was wrong. For about 20 years they had been living with a troubled conscience about what they had done. To others, it looked like they were doing well, but their past troubled them.…

How can God bring blessing through this crowd? Genesis 38 is fairly bleak reading, Judah behaves awfully. As we read through Genesis, and the Bible as a whole, we discover that everyone (except Jesus) falls short. Having said that, Joseph is a wonderful example of integrity. Someone gave a helpful definition of integrity as “what…

As we read through Genesis (and in fact the rest of the Bible), its helpful to ask where are we in relation to the promise God made to Abraham. In Genesis 12 we saw God promising to make Abraham into a great nation (people), give him a land to live in (place), and bless him…

Does your life feel like a constant striving? Our family sometimes find that living with disability can often feel like this; you have to fight for accessibility, fight for equipment, strive with medical professionals who don’t understand your son’s rare condition, strive for treatment. But for Jacob, taking on a disability became the end of…

I have to confess, I don’t understand the Sadducees! We meet them in Mark 12:18 and we are told that they don’t believe in the resurrection. What is the point of religion without resurrection? Did they believe only because they thought God would help them in this lifetime? It is certainly true that it is…