Exodus 4:1-18 In our reading from Exodus, we find the Lord reassuring and giving comfort to Moses that his mission to liberate Israel...

Exodus 2:23-3:33 The call of Moses is a strange story if you think about it. Here Moses is on the backside of the desert. He’s now...

Exodus 2:1-22 Pharaoh had just ordered the slaughter of all male Hebrew children by casting them into the waters of the Nile River in...

Genesis 46: 1-5; 47:1-31 For Jacob, this journey down into Egypt was bittersweet. For over twenty years, he had believed his beloved son...

Genesis 45: 1-20, 24-28 Today we read the climax of the Joseph story. The big reveal has happened. The masked Egyptian has unmasked...

Genesis 44:1-18, 32-34 Once again, in our reading from Genesis, Judah shows that he is a Christian. He shows how his heart and his mind...

Genesis 43:1-28 In yesterday’s devotion, I talked about how Jacob’s grief has made him irrational and despondent. His sorrow over the...

Genesis 42 Grief has a nasty habit of making people crazy, irrational and despondent. We see that with Jacob in our Old Testament reading...

Genesis 40 Ancient Egyptian religion placed a high value on dreams and their interpretations. The ancient Egyptians believed that sleep...

Genesis 39 It’s easy to miss the point of this episode in the life of Joseph. To see it as a kind of Old Testament soap opera starring a...

Genesis 37 What is the special coat that Jacob makes Joseph? The one that we so famously call the “coat of many colors?” And why does it...

Genesis 35:1-29 So much death. So much sorrow. So much fear. So much uncertainty. We see all of these things swirling about Jacob and...

Genesis 29:1-30 Who can you really trust? Well, sometimes it seems like there is no obvious answer to that question. It always amazes...

Mark 8:1-21 In our reading from Mark this morning, the Pharisees are once again following the foolish liturgy of sign-seeking that...

Genesis 24:1-31 We are told two important things about Abraham in the opening verse of our Old Testament reading: Abraham is old—and...

Genesis 22:1-19 When God provides a sacrifice atop Mount Moriah, why is it a ram, rather than a lamb? Why is the mighty ram the animal to...

Genesis 21 Family life in the Scriptures is often quite messy, which is something we see in our reading from Genesis this morning. Poor...

Mark 6:14-34 There’s nothing more terrifying than a bad conscience. There’s nothing ghostlier, nothing that haunts us more than the guilt...

Genesis 13 We see something interesting when we read the previous account of Abraham’s journey into Egypt in light of today’s reading. In...

Genesis 11:27-12:20 When God demands that Abraham leave his father’s household—he’s not just telling him to relocate geographically. No,...