How to get rid of a brother
Joseph really didn’t help himself – Joseph, a young man of 17, was tending his flocks with his brothers…..and he brought their father a bad report about them. Genesis 37:2 No one likes a...
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Setting the scene
I’d love to rush on to all the familiar excitement of the story of Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat, but first we must set the scene and journey through the less familiar territory...
Love at first sight – and then seven years of waiting!
Challenge: Take fifteen minutes today to read Genesis chapters 29 to 31. I promise you – you won’t be disappointed. This series of events would make a great film script. Honestly, you couldn’t make...
I am no longer my own but yours…
I love the word covenant. It has so much more to it than promise or commitment. A covenant requires multiple parties to be involved and it requires them all to keep their side of...
The grand deception
Sorry to all the Rebecca’s out there, but I really struggle with the Rebekah presented to us in Genesis 27. I’ll tell you the story and I think you’ll see why. The last chapter...
Wells, blessings and jealousy
We carry on with the journey in Genesis 26 with a series of thoughts arising from the story – When there is a famine, God tells Isaac ‘Do not go down to Egypt; live...
Teenagers are expert negotiators
Hey, guess what? We come from the same roots. Ishmael, known as Ismâ`îl in Arabic, is the figure known in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as Abraham’s (Ibrâhîm) son, born to Hagar (Hājar). In Islam,...
A good idea or a God idea – how can we possibly know the difference?
Abraham was now old and well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. Genesis 24:1 Really? the Lord has blessed him in every way? His beloved wife Sarah had...
Hell fire and damnation, just what had they done wrong?
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19 is as confusing as it is dramatic. The towns are viewed as beyond redemption by God and Abraham pleads to save them as long as...
An issue of safeguarding
And so we move on to the next chapter in Genesis – chapter 22 – one of the most difficult passages in the whole of the Bible to understand and explain away. How can...
