Tag: joseph
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A Temporary Throne – 45
CHAPTER 45 Genesis 37:4 But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him. “I guess I understand the competition between twelve brothers,” I said to the LORD as I observed Joseph in his glorious robes approaching his four half-brothers. YOU…
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A Temporary Throne – 44
CHAPTER 44 From the vantage point of Joseph, I observed a gathering of four men in a camp at the edge of a valley. I could see hundreds and hundreds of sheep, grouped by separate flocks on four surrounding hillsides grazing on lush green grass – one flock to my left, another further away to…
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The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Introduction
You may not have thought of the beatitudes as a teaching related to preparation for Christmas (Advent), but by intention of the Spirit that is exactly what is on my heart. The usual Christmas liturgy of church begins just after the following genealogy of Jesus Christ (which we tend to skip over, just like those…
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This is my son
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” I am well pleased in some things: like how hard he has worked and what he has achieved as part of his football team. In other things: I am not so well pleased. We know that this quote is not mine alone and that…
