Tag: genesis
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Our Family Table: Trust and Obey
19 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 22-24 “Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, ‘Father?’ ‘Yes, my son?’ Abraham replied. ‘The fire and wood…
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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…
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Our Family Table, Day 2
2 January 2024 Reading from Genesis 4-7 “So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.” Genesis 7:23 Noah was…