A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho July 5 2020 Genesis 25:19-34 As a mother of sons, not twins, but sons, I confess that this passage gives me pause. My boys are wonderful young men, and I can’t quite imagine Elliott trying to buy Alden’s birthright for a chicken burrito, but I…
We fully see God face to face, because of the times we experience forgiveness and mercy from people around us.
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church September 25, 2016 Selected verses from Genesis 38 and 50 Joseph is Jacob’s second youngest son, and the first-born son of Jacob’s favorite wife, making him Jacob’s favorite son. Joseph is also a dreamer. And his dreams get him in trouble, because he dreams that his older brothers…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church on July 6, 2014. Genesis 28:10-19a Dreams are a weird business. Cultures have been interpreting dreams from ancient days. There are numerous dream accounts in scripture, other than this dream of Jacob’s. There are dreams interpreted in the ancient story of Gilgamesh. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung made…
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