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Genesis 37 - Family Dysfunction & Providence

04 October 2011

One of my enduring memories is May 10, 1994 eyes of the world watched as a dignified grey-haired man inaugurated as president of his country. I breathed to myself, over & over, Joseph, Joseph ...

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Genesis 38 - Lineage Sustained despite Male Recalcitrance

30 September 2011

Over 30 years ago I remember a scintillating lecture by R.A. Cole on the relevance of the Old Testament. He told a story of a friend who took a non-Christian friend to church one Sunday and the lectionary text happened to be one of the racier texts of the OT. He wondered whatever his friend might think of hearing this at church, but his friend just leaned over and, with a twinkle in his eye, said, "Cor! Just like the Sunday Papers." Genesis 38 may be almost too risque for the Sunday papers but it is in Holy Scripture and we shall consider its message ...

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