(Reflections from Sunday Morning's Message) They came early in the morning—religious men with holy words on their lips and hard stones in their hands. The scribes and Pharisees, the professional and the pious, arrived not for worship but for war. They brought with them a woman, trembling, shamed, caught “in the very act.” They said …
They told him all the words of Joseph. But when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. And Israel said, ‘It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.’ - Genesis 45:27–28 For twenty years, Jacob …
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Jacob rose up that night… and passed over the ford Jabbok. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until daybreak. — Genesis 32:22, 24 Hub airports are peculiar places. You’re no longer where you began, but you’re not yet where you’re going. Hardly anyone books a ticket to the hub …
On the fourth day of creation, God gave the world its rhythm. “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.”—Genesis 1:14 Before that moment, light had been created. But …
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