LIKE SEEING THE VERY FACE OF GOD

Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the...

BROKEN AND BLESSED 

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is...

GOD’S HOSPITALITY TO US

John 21: 13: Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.  With a simple beachfront meal of bread and grilled fish, time begins running backwards and the curse of sin, shame and death starts coming undone. Remember how, at the...

THE RABBI’S MISTAKE

Luke 13: 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to...

WHAT SACRIFICES REMAIN?

Hebrews 13: 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go...