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Our scripture this morning is Exodus 12:14 (NET). This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance. The confrontation between God and Pharaoh culminates in the death of the firstborn. God’s people are spared by …
Our scripture this morning is Exodus 3:10 (NET). “So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” The story of Moses in Exodus proceeds swiftly from his birth, rescue from the Nile and being raised in Pharaoh’s palace. While he was born a Hebrew, he …
Our scripture this morning is Exodus 1:22 (NET). Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.” After the generation of Joseph and his brothers a new pharaoh reigned in Egypt. He made life hard for God’s people, even resorting …
Our scripture this morning is Genesis 50:20 (NET). As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day. After the death of their father Jaccob, Joseph’s brothers again worry that he might seek retribution …
Our scripture today is Genesis 37:28 (NET). So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt. God’s family had spiraled down to this: Joseph, Abraham’s great grandson, is sold into slavery …
Our scripture this morning is Genesis 22:12 (NET). “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.” The largest part of God’s blessing to Abraham was the promise of a …
Our scripture this morning is Genesis 12:2-3 (NET). Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing. I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all …
Our scripture this morning is Genesis 9:1 (NET). Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” Does today’s verse sound familiar? In Genesis 1:28 we read “God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule …
Our scripture this morning is Genesis 3:9 (NET) But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” I think this is one of the saddest verses in all of scripture. God knows where we are and what we have done, but He comes looking for us anyway. It also …
Friends, I’m trying a new direction for my posts here. I wish I had started at the beginning of the year but at least today begins a new month. What I will try to do is spend a week in each book of the Bible in order, picking verses from various places. For some, like …