God Running is a place for anyone who wants to (or even anyone who wants to want to) love Jesus more deeply, follow Jesus more closely, and love people the way Jesus wants us to.
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God Running is a place for anyone who wants to (or even anyone who wants to want to) love Jesus more deeply, follow Jesus more closely, and love people the way Jesus wants us to.
Read MoreGenesis 21:22-34 What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?
God Running is a place for anyone who wants to (or even anyone who wants to want to) love Jesus more deeply, follow Jesus more closely, and love people the way Jesus wants us to.
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Joseph’s 5 Steps To Avoid Temptation: Genesis 39
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, Simone Contarini, Italian, about 1640 (Photo Credit: AlainTruong.com)
Today I started reading Drew Dyck’s excellent book Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets of Self Control from the Bible and Brain Science (A guide for sinners, quitters, and procrastinators). And tomorrow I’m going to NBA Summer League with my nephew Kassidy, so inspired by Drew Dyck, here’s one from the archives: Read More
Can God Use Even Me? (Another setback in my quest to love like Jesus)
“I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
Exodus 3:3
Another Setback In My Quest To Love Like Jesus
5 Things You’ll Experience in Your Life with Christ: Genesis 12:1-9
(From the archives)
5 Things . . . Read More
Joseph and Jesus–Sold by His Brothers: Genesis 37:12-36
Joseph Sold by His Brothers (Photo credit: DoJewish Blog)
From the archives:
Read Genesis 37:12-36.
Jesus said to them on the road to Emmaus:
“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
Luke 24:25-27
Can God Use A Sinner Like You (or like me)? Genesis 49:8-12
From the archives:
Read Genesis 49:1-28
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the nations shall be his. Genesis 49:10
A Sinner and Strays
I know a single mother who’s made mistakes, big mistakes. She battled drug and alcohol addiction for decades. She’s had multiple men in and out of her life. She struggled mightily at times as a single mother.
But there is this one thing about her: Read More
Joseph’s 5 Steps to Avoid Temptation: Genesis 39:6-23
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, Simone Contarini, Italian, about 1640 (Photo Credit: AlainTruong.com)
For a friend who’s battling temptation. (From the archives) Read More
Joseph And The War Vet: How Both Were Forgotten
(From the archives)
It’s Memorial Day weekend, the time we take to honor those who died while serving our country. In today’s post we’ll look at the life of Joseph and what he had in common with one U.S. war vet who died much later than you could imagine.
Genesis 40:8-23
Pharaoh’s chief cupbearer and baker each have dreams on the same night. Joseph, their fellow prisoner, sees they’re dejected because they recognize the dreams as having meaning, but they can’t figure out the interpretation. So Joseph asks them the rhetorical question, “Do not interpretations belong to God?”
So the cupbearer decides to share his dream with Joseph.
The cupbearer, says, In my dream I see Read More
Joseph’s 5 Steps to Avoid Temptation: Genesis 39:6-23
God Running is a place for anyone who wants to (or even anyone who wants to want to) love Jesus more deeply, follow Jesus more closely, and love people the way Jesus wants us to.
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Posted on December 12, 2020 by Kurt Bennett
Bible Commentary, Genesis, temptation
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