Message: In Genesis Joseph finally reveals his true identity to his brothers it was a very emotional time and Joseph tells them that he is not angry, and that this was God protecting them and their families from starving. The... Continue reading →

Message: Proverbs is all about listening to wisdom, and responding to correction. This is great to live by, but we also have to learn how to respond to and interact with people who don’t choose this. Proverbs 15 addresses a... Continue reading →

Message: As I read through this story and saw Joseph’s brothers fear and expect the worst as they were being given the best of everything. Including full access to Joseph in his private banquet room. They were receiving the highest... Continue reading →

B Message: There seems to be a parallel of messages between Genesis 42 and Mark 14 with a theme of betrayal. In Genesis we see Joseph facing his brothers for the first time after they betrayed him and sold him... Continue reading →

Message: As a child, Joseph had dreams about his future. These weren’t grandiose desires that he concocted out of his mind on his own. They were short pieces of his future that God showed him through his dreams. He wasn’t... Continue reading →

Message: Jesus was being tested and questioned from all angles and all sorts of powerful religious people who were coming at him with an agenda. They brought their trickiest angles in trying to provoke Jesus to implicate himself by answering... Continue reading →

Message: Today as I read Mark 11 I came across the story of Jesus telling his disciples to go into town and they would find a colt tied up. They were to untie it and if anyone were to ask... Continue reading →

1.Message: Reading through Mark 10 I found myself reading on auto-pilot. I have read it so many times, and I’ve heard plenty of sermons on these stories but today something jumped out at me as I read about blind Bartimaeus.... Continue reading →

Message: As we have been reading through the gospels I have noticed thatJesus was constantly bringing up things that were previously prophesied  to happen, and then fulfilling him just a short time after. Every time Jesus would perform a miracle... Continue reading →

G Message: In Mark 8 Jesus was about to feed another crowd of people. The disciples didn’t understand how they were going to feed the crowd even though they had already seen Jesus feed 5000 people with a little boy’s... Continue reading →

1. Message: What stood out to me today was In Mark 7 when the Pharisees were calling out the disciples because they didn’t do the ceremonial hand washing tradition before they ate. It was more than just hand washing to... Continue reading →

M Message:  When Jesus went to the region of the Gerasenes he met the man possessed by demons. The man initially ran toward Jesus and bowed before him, but then he screeched at Jesus saying “why are you interfering with... Continue reading →

Emotional Baggage of Guilt Message: Well I’m still sucked into the story of Jacob so here I go again in Genesis! Jacob is about to see his brother face to face for the first time since he stole his blessing... Continue reading →

Message: It seems I’m stuckin Genesis lately but I can’t help but follow this interesting storyline. If you remember back to where Jacob received the stolen blessing, his father said that he would be his brother’s master. When he blessed... Continue reading →

H Message: Jacob had marked a large stone as a monument to mark his covenant with God. He renamed the town Bethel before showing up at his Uncle Laban’s place.He endured a lot of dishonesty, trickery and unfair treatment in... Continue reading →

Message: As I was reading about Jacob’s interaction with his Uncle Laban I started to see a continued pattern of trickery going on. Previously Jacob manipulated and tricked his way into stealing Esau’s blessing and then he runs away to... Continue reading →