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6 days ago · Genesis 50:15–26. Let us be honest. We have all experienced the temptation to exact revenge. Our thoughts about revenge are most often over minor matters. Genesis 50 describes the fear the brothers of Joseph had that in his role in the administration of Egypt, Joseph would seek revenge for his brothers having sold him into slavery in Egypt ...
6 days ago · Joseph knows his time has come. And yet, even in his dying breaths, he testifies to the promise and power of God. For three generations, he models faithfulness to the Lord. And he raises his children and his nephews and nieces, who’ll raise their children, though foreign-born to a foreign land, to live faithfully to Yahweh, the God of Abraham ...
Apr 30, 2024 · God was with Joseph, and he became a successful man as a servant of Potiphar, whose name means “belonging to the sun.” Verse 6 notes the physical appearance of Joseph — “well-built and handsome.” Potiphar’s unnamed wife invited Joseph to have sexual relations with her. Joseph cited three reasons in his negative response to her advances.
May 4, 2024 · Coffman conducted hundreds of gospel meetings throughout the U.S. and, at one count, baptized more than 3,000 souls. Retiring in 1971, he returned to Houston. One of his most notable accomplishments was writing a 37-volume commentary of the entire Bible, verse by verse, which was finished in 1992. This commentary is being sold all over the world.
May 6, 2024 · One outstanding commentary series that helps bring historical perspective to Bible study is the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. Luther Library has not only circulating volumes (for check out), but also reference volumes, always available in our Reading Room. One set covers 15 volumes of the Old Testament, and another set of 12 ...
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May 14, 2024 · It [faith] will be reckoned to us [as righteousness] who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification. Romans 4:24-25. Having established that, then, in chapter 5 Paul begins to draw out some of the implications of the universal significance of this ...
May 6, 2024 · Jesus is the source and center around which our Christian lives are oriented. Being hidden with Christ in God means our previous history—the old life—is over and done, and the new life with an entirely different and glorious future has begun. Paul said, “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ ...
