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  • 90s Summers

    90s Summers

    On the Internet, people were commenting that they wanted to do a summer like the 1990s. So now you get to hear about what I remember from summers growing up.  My mom used to work during day and my dad would be home with in the days over the summer break. He worked the swing…

  • Genesis 28: Wivalry 

    This chapter continues telling about the conflict between adult twins Esau and Jacob.  Their father Isaac, sends the younger one, Jacob, off to Paddan-aram to find a wife from Rebekah’s brother Laban’s family near Haran, the town named for Abraham’s brother. Isaac repeats God’s blessing to Abraham of offspring and nations to Jacob. Isaac specifically…

  • Softball Season

    We attended our first high school softball game yesterday. Years ago, I played adult, slow-pitch, coed, city D-league, and have watched local farm-team baseball, but I didn’t know what the high school girls rules were. Here is a quick primer.  This was fast underhand pitch and the game play was tight. First off, there are only…

  • Genesis 27: #Blessed

    This chapter begins with Isaac feeling his advanced age. He is going blind and he feels like he’s at the end of his life. He tells his oldest son Esau to go out into the field and hunt for game so he can bless him.  Rebekah overhears him and rushes over to her favorite son…

  • Genesis 26: History Repeats 

    In this chapter Isaac and Rebekah and their two sons travel East to escape a famine. The Lord tells them not to go to Egypt. They end up going to the land ruled by King Abimelech of Gerar. The name Abimelech was used for several Philistine kings, so may have been a descendent of the…

  • Genesis 25: Twinning 

    This chapter starts with a list six of the sons that Abraham had with his second wife after Sarah died. One of these sons is Midian whose tribe shows up in the story later. With each son, Abraham sends them out eastward from his camp like he sent Hagar away with Ishmael. The author also…

  • Genesis 24: Rebekah

    Before Abraham died, he called his oldest, most trusted servant to him. He made him swear to find a wife for Isaac from his surviving brother’s family instead of the neighboring Canaanites.  The servant sets off on his mission across the Negev wilderness for hundreds of miles. When he gets there, he sees the women…

  • Genesis 23: In Deed

    Genesis 23: In Deed

    At age 127, Sarah dies in Hebron. Abraham negotiates with the Hittites for land to bury her body. He starts by acknowledging that he was a sojourner, a temporary resident.  The Hittites answers that Abraham is a Prince of God, so they offer him some land. Abraham mentions that Ephron had a cave east of…

  • Genesis 22: The Test

    Genesis 22: The Test

    God tells Abraham to bring his only beloved son to the land of Moriah and give him as a burnt offering to him.  So, Abraham takes Isaac, a donkey with wood and two servants on a three-day trip. Upon arrival at the mountain, Abraham leaves the servants and donkey. He has Isaac carry the wood,…

  • Genesis 20: Fear & Infertility 

    Abraham and his family travel southwest across the Negev, a desert, past the place that Hagar went when she ran away to a place called Gerar. Abraham tells the local King Abimelech that Sarah is his sister and so takes her keeps her in his palace. It’s the same deal as in Egypt.  God visits…