Family Drama-Again!

August 13, 20223 "Family Drama-Again!" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.  These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and ...
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Hold On

August 6, 2023 "Hold On" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 32:22-31 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had.  Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.&nbsp...
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Loving Leah

July 30, 2023 "Loving Leah" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 29:15-28 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.  Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel ...
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“I am with you”

July 23, 2023 "I am with you" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 28:10-19a  Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.  He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.  And he dreamed that there was a stairway set...
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Family Drama

July 16, 2023 "Family Drama" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 25:19-34 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.  Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because s...
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Will You Go?

July 9, 2023 "Will You Go?" - Pam Gombert ScriptureGenesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 54-58 So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.  The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys.  And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master when ...
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The Lord Provides

July 2, 2023 "The Lord Provides" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 22:1-14 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”  ...
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God Hears

June 25, 2023 "God Hears" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 21:8-21 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.  But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of thi...
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Fruitful

June 18, 2023 "Fruitful" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 18:1-15 The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.  He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them and bowed down to the ground.  He s...
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Be a Blessing

June 11, 2023 "Be a Blessing" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureGenesis 12:1-9 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bl...
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