| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 10 secs | 0 Comments
A superficial reading of this chapter is rather strange. It seems like Joseph is rather mean to his brothers as retaliation for the way they treated him. Sometimes we just need to read a little more slowly and marinate on it a bit more! The brothers had left a famine back home and a paranoid […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 36 secs | 0 Comments
Change is inevitable! A Baptist church deacon was asked at his retirement party if he had seen much change in his 40 years as a deacon? “Yes and I resisted everyone of them!” Change is inevitable v1-10 Jacob has lived his life as an arch-manipulator, but in these last years he is having to realise […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 36 secs | 0 Comments
Joseph has come a long way from that 17-year-old annoying brother, dreaming of all his family bowing down to him. He is in charge of all of Egypt and enjoying where God has brought him to. Here we finally see those dreams of chapter 37 coming true as Joseph’s brothers come and literally bow down […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
We love a rags to riches story – Cinderella, Rocky, J.K. Rowling the struggling single mum who then wrote Harry Potter books and the James Bond Actor Daniel Craig, who slept on park benches as a struggling actor. Most of them involved the person pulling themselfup and depending on their own resources and wits. God’s […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 8 secs | 0 Comments
The theme of today’s passage is v8 “Do not interpretations belong to God?” Many modern neuroscientists believe that the majority of dreams are natural dreams that work through mental activity to process issues in our daily lives. (for example Why we need sleep), the Bible however shows us that God speaks through dreams. The Old […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
Todays’ passage has all the drama of a soap opera – Joseph treated badly by his brothers and sold into slavery, but ends up as COO of Potiphar’s household and then chucked in prison! Joseph starts out using his gifts and talents to be a blessing in his secular workplace. He’s not serving believers and […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 40 secs | 0 Comments
Imperfect people and God’s perfect family Joseph had two amazing dreams about his future, both correctly interpreted by his family as meaning that, at some point, they would bow down to him and he would rule over them. As shocking as these dreams were for his brothers and even his father, they were unquestionably from […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 0 secs | 0 Comments
It is time for the Lord to break into Jacob’s life. He has been chosen by God, but has been pretty unremarkable and deceitful up to this point. Twice he has deceived his brother and he needs to go into his own exile, for things to cool off. Isaac sends him off to Canaan to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 49 secs | 0 Comments
Sometimes when reading the bible you come across a passage that seems to be little more than just a history lesson. This is one of those passages: The story of Jacob and Esau, and how Jacob cheated Esau out of the blessing his father intended for him. However the Bible was not intended to […]