God assures Moses that God's presence will travel with Israel, but challenges him by refusing to manifest in their presence. How, then, could Israel prove that they were God's chosen?…
We often question who we are to demand change and fight injustice. Moses wondered, too, and God reminded him that he was the loved child of the Great I Am,…
After Joseph's Pharaoh dies, the Hebrews are left vulnerable to the growing paranoia of the new Pharaoh. The inability to recognize the realties and listen to dissent leads Pharaoh to…
We frequently think of Joseph (he of the dreamcoat) forgiving his brothers. But he also unquestionably used the power of the state first to terrorize them and then to benefit…
Transformation comes from struggle. In this week's sermon, Pastor Nathan looks at the struggle of Jacob, and our own empathy with Joseph's brothers' desire to put him in his place…
We get a lot of models of marriage in the Bible. What lessons do we learn from the marriages between Jacob and Leah and Jacob and Rachel? Are they models…
What makes a place sacred? We tell stories to explain the importance of certain places in our lives. But we, too, have the ability to make places sacred, especially for…
Esau and Jacob both have narratives that lead them into their conflict. How do we separate out our own aggrieved feelings from our understanding of the world around us?
