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Reconciliation of the Brothers The long speech of Judah that we just read is going to be matched by a long speech of his brother Yoseph. And that speech is gonna begin the final third of the second act. In Joseph's speech, he's going to talk about how, "Hey, I think Elohim was, like, behind all of this…

The Crisis Nobody Is Talking About There is a mental health crisis in our world today. Depression. Anxiety. Burnout. Hopelessness. 1 in 5 adults in the United States will experience a diagnosable mental health condition this year. And the church — our church — is not exempt. People are sitting in our…

The Brothers Return to Egypt We are gonna walk into the center of the center of the story of Yoseph and his brothers. This large section is the center of the center of the story of Yoseph and his brothers. It consists of three larger units ( Gen. 43:1-15 , 43:15-44:13 , and 44:14-34) designed as a symmetry.…

How many of you still remember a song from Vacation Bible School? Maybe you remember the motions. Maybe you remember a memory verse. Maybe you remember the cookies, the crafts, or the awkward skits. But for many people, VBS became much more than a childhood memory. For some, it was the first time they…

Jacob’s Lost Sons We're just gonna pick up in verse 21 and a whole new network. Think what happens after the test in the Eden story? Think through the sequence in early Genesis stories, and then the sequence of what's happening here. 21 Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished…

The Brothers Go Down to Egypt Last session, The suffering chosen one goes down into what everybody else thinks is death, but Yahweh is with him. He rescues him, raises him up through uncanny circumstances to become an image of Pharaoh ruling over the land with the wisdom of God. And there's life and…