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Essential 100—Read: Genesis 45:1-46:7 “Don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.” ~Genesis 45:5 (NLT) Useful idiots! With all due respect, that’s what I would call Joseph’s brothers. Twenty-two [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 43:1-44:34 “Now the famine was still severe in the land. So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, ‘Go back and buy us a little more food.’” ~Genesis 43:1-2 In Matthew 5:45, Jesus said something of the [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 42:1-38 “Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, ‘What is this that God has done to us?’ … ‘Everything is against me!’” ~Genesis 42:28 & 36 If you’ve been around the Bible much, you know this story well. Joseph’s brothers, out of [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 39, 40 & 41 “The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him…When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream…So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon.” ~Genesis 40:23, 41:1 & 13 As you read the prison portion [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 32:1-33:20 “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome.” ~Genesis 32:28 There was a day when entertainment didn’t come through the television set; it came through the radio. Believe it or not, I can [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 27:1-28:22 “Jacob had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.” ~Genesis 28:12 Leo Burnett was an advertising executive named by Time magazine as one of [...]
Essential 100—Read: Genesis 21:1-22:9 “Some time later God tested Abraham…‘Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.’” ~Genesis 22:1 I’m guessing this story in [...]
Ray Noah
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