Tag: christianity
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Our Family Table: The Value of Human Life
29 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 48-50 “When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” ‘They are the sons God has given me here,’ Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, ‘Bring them to me so I may bless them.’” –Genesis 48:8-9 This passage of Scripture shows that children are blessings from God…
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Our Family Table: The Detours of Life
28 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 46-47 “So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, ‘Jacob! Jacob!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not…
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Our Family Table: Everything We Need
27 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 43-45 “Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come close to me.’ When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save…
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Our Family Table: New Clothes
24 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 35-37 “Then God said to Jacob, ‘Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.’ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you,…
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Our Family Table: A Stairway to Heaven
21 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 27-29 “Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the…
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Our Family Table: We Are Never Alone
20 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 25-26 “Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.” –Genesis 25:8 As far as I can tell, the death of Abraham is the first mention of an afterlife in the Bible…
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Our Family Table: God Sees You
18 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 19-21 “Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. When the water in the…
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Our Family Table: Sarai, Sex and Self-Determination
17 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 16-18 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 