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Where there’s a will there’s a…fight! Sadly siblings sometimes fall out over the will of a deceased parents. When Jacob dies, the brothers are not arguing over money and possessions but they are fearful that Joseph might have only been kind to them for the sake of their father. Now he is gone, will Joseph…

How do you cope with losing a wife? And then a son when he’s just 17? Or how about falling out with your brother so that you have flee from home. That’s just some of the heartache Jacob faced. In Genesis 48 he reveals how he got through: Gen 48:15 “the God who has been…

How can you be free from bitterness towards those who have hurt you? What about those who have really hurt you? Joseph had been sold as a slave by his own brothers, it had been a choice between killing him and making a bit of money out of him and they had gone for the…

There’s something about admitting you’re wrong. It’s hard to do, but what beautiful change can come about. When the brothers return with Benjamin and the silver cup ends up in Benjamin’s sack, Judah – acknowledges his guilt (44:16). Of course they are not actually guilty of stealing the cup, but Judah seems to be recognising…

The way they treated him was wrong. It looked like they weren’t too bothered by it, but deep down they knew it was wrong. For about 20 years they had been living with a troubled conscience about what they had done. To others, it looked like they were doing well, but their past troubled them.…

How can God bring blessing through this crowd? Genesis 38 is fairly bleak reading, as we read through Genesis, and the Bible as a whole, we discover that everyone (except Jesus) falls short. Having said that, Joseph is a wonderful example of integrity. I think someone gave a helpful definition of integrity as what you…

As we read through Genesis (and in fact the rest of the Bible), its helpful to ask where are we in relation to the promise God made to Abraham. In Genesis 12 we saw God promising to make Abraham into a great nation (people), give him a land to live in (place), and bless him…

“The Lord is near to all who call on Him.” This is a wonderful truth and as I read it this morning it got me thinking about the great sermon I heard on Sunday evening. We were looking at the work of the Holy Spirit and considering how He graciously shows us our sin and…

As we come to the end of another Lord’s Day, has your day been full of frantic activity, or could it be described as fruitful? In Mark 11 we have a very strange incident of Jesus cursing a fig tree because it didn’t bear fruit. Was Jesus ‘hangry’? That’s unlikely given he went 40 days…

Rebekah thought you had to grab God’s blessing or you might miss out. Jacob thought you need to trick and deceive to get it. Isaac thought he could give the blessing to whoever he wanted (Genesis 27). The disciples thought God’s blessing was just for the important people.The rich young man thought he could get…