Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there. 31 Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, “Serve the food.”  I often got into trouble in school and it was much later that I discovered it…

Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. 14 May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”  If you have been following our sermon series on the life of Joseph from Genesis…

To Titus, my true child in a common faith:  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.  Before email, people once wrote letters and there were standard greetings such as, “How are you? I am well…” They resembled small talk that could easily be skipped before getting to the meat of the letter. There were standard…

When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. 31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies. You are…

When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” 2 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.” There are a few instances in…

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. “That’s it in a nutshell.” Yes, I wonder where this comes from too. Pliny joked…