Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

Recently I was blessed with the opportunity to re-hash Genesis with a group of friends.   We each took a few chapters and summarized those chapters and went through the group.   We covered it all in about 45 minutes.   It was a lot of information to take in, but also fun to hear our friends breathlessly try to fit in everything that they could about the stories that we already knew, into the short few minutes they were given to do this in.   The book of Genesis has an awful lot of drama.   Hearing pieces of it, I thought a soap opera writer couldn’t have done better themselves.   God makes man perfect, but gives us free will – Man sins- Man is thrown out of the Garden of Eden- Man has two sons- One son kills the other son, the world goes down hill.   God sends a flood to kill everything and start over.   He then calls a man who is really really old to follow him.   Abraham has a wife Sarah- Sarah can’t have babies so tells him to ...

Recently, I have been looking at the Bible in a totally different way.   While doing our family devotions the other night, we read the story of Samson.   At the end of the story, the author paralleled it to Jesus and to His story.   The story of Hosea also is a story about how God loves Israel so much.   This week, I was asked to read a section of the Bible for our Life Group.   It is a story that I am so familiar with, I can literally say, or rather sing, it in my sleep.   It is the story of Joseph.   Throughout high school, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream Coat was by far my favorite musical, performing in it 5 shows and watching it over 30 if you include all the shows that I attended.   Needless to say, I am very familiar with this story.   At first, when I was assigned this section, I was thinking to myself, this will be easy, I can just re-tell the story and be done.   This morning, I realized that God had somethi...