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  • Exodus 6: Inheritance

    Exodus 6: Inheritance

    After Moses’s PTO request to leave Egypt for a religious retreat with the Israelites was denied and punished, Moses complains to God that he has failed to deliver his people.  God goes over the history, saying he identifies as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but didn’t give them his “I Am” name before.…

  • Exodus 4: Accepts The Assignment 

    Exodus 4: Accepts The Assignment 

    We join today’s reading midway through the conversation between Moses and God at the burning bush. Moses is insisting that no one will believe a shepherd wandering into Pharaoh’s court demanding release of the Israelites from slavery. God gives him some up close magic to perform, turning his walking staff into a snake and back,…

  • Exodus 2: Baby Basket Blessing

    Exodus 2: Baby Basket Blessing

    The scene opens with a standing order by the Pharaoh for all male Hebrew offspring to be thrown into the river. In the clan of Levi, a couple named Amram and Jochebed have a baby boy and manage to hide him for three months.  When the baby gets too big, Jochebed makes a papyrus basket…

  • Back to School Daze

    Back to School Daze

    Tim and I attended my oldest kid’s back to school night for high school yesterday. She will be an incoming freshman, so it’s all new to her. We saw the building a little bit during enrollment in the spring, but this was different because she was given her schedule and encouraged to walk the halls,…

  • Perennials 

    Perennials 

    I didn’t grow up with sisters, but I did have girl cousins. One lived in the same town when we were very young and it bonded us early on. Then our parents fell out with each other and we didn’t see each other much over the time of our middle and teen years.  We sort…

  • The Three-Way

    When we talk in Christian circles about the infilling of the Holy Spirit, it’s often about us accessing the Gifts of the Spirit: knowledge, wisdom, faith, miracles, healing, prophecy, and tongues. We think about what we receive from Holy Spirit but do we consider what the Spirit of God receives from us. What does the…

  • Genesis 48: Double Blessing 

    Genesis 48: Double Blessing 

    Joseph is told his elderly father is ill, so he brings his two sons to him for a blessing. Israel expresses his gratitude to not only see his lost son Joseph’s face again after all the years, but also to see his grandsons. Israel says even though they were born in Egypt, they are his,…

  • Genesis 46: Leaving Canaan

    Genesis 46: Leaving Canaan

    The wagons from Egypt arrive to carry everyone out of the wilderness. Israel offers sacrifices to God at the place Abraham planted the Tamarisk tree called Beersheba. God communicates with him assurances about going to Egypt. God tells Israel that his family will transform into a Nation. He promises to bring them back out again,…

  • Genesis 45: The Big Reveal 

    Genesis 45: The Big Reveal 

    After all the back and forth, Joseph can no longer contain his emotions. He sends all the Egyptians out of the room and cries in front of his brothers. He’s so loud that every one can hear him anyway. He tells his brothers that he is their long lost brother Joseph, and they are devastated.…

  • Genesis 44: Cup Confessions

    Genesis 44: Cup Confessions

    In the morning after feasting and drinking, Judah and his ten brothers, including Simeon and Benjamin start on their journey home with bags bursting with grain. What they don’t know is that Joseph has put silver in their grain bags and his own drinking cup into Benjamin’s bag. You’d think after last time they’d check. …