Month: January 2023
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Small Group Study Guide, Week 5
Summary Friends, because of time constraints this week, I was not able to provide the day-by-day summary I’ve been doing in this section. Fortunately, we are still in a section that is very familiar to many of you. Instead, let me direct you to a couple of resources that will give you additional helps and…
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Cycle Breaker, Table Maker (Genesis 37-45)
#5 in 66 in 52, A Yearlong Journey Through Scripture. January 29, 2023. Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, AL. James Jackson, Lead Pastor The Big Idea: Joseph, the last major character to be introduced in Genesis, was part of a family with a long history of dysfunction, deceitfulness, rejection and resentment. Maybe you are, too. How…
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Day 031: What if They Won’t Listen? (Exodus 4:1)
4 Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”Exodus 4:11-13 CSB In yesterday’s post, we looked at the first two questions Moses had for God: Beginning with chapter 4, we get the rest of Moses’ argument for why he thought God had picked the wrong…
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A Spurgeon Snapshot: How Pain Plays a Part in God’s Plan (Exodus 1:13-14)
13 They [the Egyptian taskmasters] worked the Israelites ruthlessly 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them. (Exodus 1:13-14) At the church I serve, I’m currently taking a small group through a study of Tim Keller’s The Reason for…
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Day 030: “I Have Seen… So I Send” (Exodus 3:11-12)
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt,…
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Day 029: A Grievous Mourning by the… Egyptians? (Genesis 50:7-11)
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the…
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Carry Me Home: A Poem for Ed
Late last night, I got the call that a beloved saint in my church had his homegoing. He had been fighting cancer for years, and last summer he told me that there weren’t any more treatments to try, and he was going to let the cancer run its course. I’ve visited with Ed several times…
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Day 028: Carry Me Out of Egypt (Genesis 47:27-30)
27 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. 9 And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight,…
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Day 027 (Again): Silver in the Sack (Genesis 43:23)
21 When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s silver was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us. 22 We have brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don’t know…
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Day 027: Trouble Brewing? (Genesis 45:17-18)
17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan, 18 and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the…
