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Exodus 3: Old Promise, New Name
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App to School
Welcome back to school! If you are dropping off you kids be sure to download the Pickup Patrol app. You will need to update any changes to your child’s schedule by 2:20. For bus drop off and pickup information, go to the Hillsboro district transportation page for updates. Please be sure to order your child’s…
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Perennials
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Wrap up
Hi everyone, I hope you gave enjoyed going through Genesis with me this summer. The paperback edition of Luke Notes from the Garden is on sale through the end of August. It includes a daily summary of each chapter plus prompts for going deeper and reflection. We will be starting up Exodus soon, so stay…
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Genesis 49: Future Tense
Jacob calls his sons together to give them his final words to them. He frames this less as a blessing, and more as prophecy, “That I may tell you what will happen to you.” Jacob start his prophecy with the oldest Ruben. It starts positively, calling him the first fruit of his strength, preeminent in…
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Genesis 47: Settling In
Joseph’s family moved to the land of Goshen, the Nile Delta. Joseph brought five of his brothers to Pharaoh and presented them. The Pharaoh agreed to them living in the land of Rameses and offered them jobs tending his royal flocks. Joseph also presented his father Israel who was 130 and said his days were…
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Genesis 42: Tears for Fears
Joseph’s father, Jacob, tells his ten oldest sons to go to Egypt to buy grain. They look at each other, remembering twenty years earlier when they sold their younger brother into slavery. Jacob demands that they go, so they don’t all starve to death during the famine that is upon them. Jacob also insists on…
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Genesis 41: Pharaoh’s Famine
Two whole years layer, the Pharaoh has a series of distressing dreams. In the first, seven attractive, plump cows come out of the Nile river followed by seven ugly, thin ones. The thin ones devour the plump ones. In the second dream, Pharaoh sees seven ears of grain growing from a stalk, followed by seven…
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Genesis 40: Grape & Grain
Joseph has now been in prison for a while. What’s a while? Five weeks? Five months? Something happens in the palace and Pharaoh angrily tosses two of his inner circle into prison: his chief baker and royal cup bearer. Did someone in the palace get food poisoning? The head of the prisoners, assigns Joseph to…
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Genesis 32: Wrestling with God
