“Then the Lord said to Jacob, ‘Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you'” (Genesis 31:3).God’s first step to move us from one experience or place to another is to put a desire deep within us. As God prepared Jacob to move back to the Land […]
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Sir Walter Scott wrote, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” In Genesis 27, we read a sad story about deception in Isaac and Rebekah’s family—no one in this family trusted one another. They were one dysfunctional family, but God functioned in spite of that dysfunction.The Lord had told […]
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As a father and son hiked up a mountain, the path grew dangerous, and they had to decide on the safest route. The father heard his son say, “Choose the right way, Daddy. I’m coming right behind you.”Unfortunately, Isaac—the boy who climbed Mount Moriah with Abraham in Genesis 22—did follow in his father’s footsteps. In […]
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In Genesis 24, Abraham sent his servant Eliezer on a journey to find a wife for his son, Isaac. Abraham made him swear he would not take a woman from among the Canaanites. When Eliezer arrived, he prayed a very humble, but detailed and specific prayer, which God answered before he could even say, “Amen” […]
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This week, I want to deal with the subject of death. We’re all marching down the road toward death—unless Jesus comes back first—so we should get comfortable with the idea.Scripture provides many principles and examples for how to prepare spiritually and practically for death. Here are five ways you can start preparing today.First, learn to […]
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