Joseph's Bones (Genesis 50)

What do we take away from the Joseph story? Especially when it comes to the suffering that all of us experience? Where do we find hope? It all depends on how we view the past, present, and future.

• Joseph's Bones - Ryan Sutherland
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Joseph and the Famine (Genesis 42)

What do you do with some of these passages from the Old Testament? If you read them looking for some sort of principle for living then you'll be sorely disappointed. However, the story of Joseph does show us several different ways of looking at spiritual famine.

• Joseph & the Famine - Christian Cryder
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Pharaoh's Dreams (Genesis 41)

We return to our study on Joseph and how God's purpose for humanity plays out in his life. What we see in this story is that history is like a giant jigsaw puzzle that God is putting together one piece at a time. He's fitting people together in the right places at the right time. So where do you fit?

• Pharaoh's Dreams - Ryan Sutherland
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Joseph and the Dreamers (Genesis 40)

Joseph listens to two dreams and then proceeds to tell the two men what their dreams mean...and he gets both of them right! What does this mean for us? Is it that God still speaks through dreams? Or is there some deeper meaning for us embedded within?

• Joseph and the Dreamers - Ryan Sutherland
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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (Genesis 39)

We pick up the story of Joseph - now a slave down in Egypt. To add insult to injury he is wrongly accused of rape and thrown in an Egyptian prison. However, the story insists that "God was with Joseph." What's your hope in the midst of hardship?

• Joseph and Potiphar's Wife - Ryan Sutherland
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The God over Injustice (Genesis 37:12-36)

How is God's purpose for us (to be a blessing) seem relevant when we experience injustice? Is it possible that the injustices done to us actually further his purpose?

• The God over Injustice - Ryan Sutherland
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The God of Family Dysfunction (Genesis 37:1-11)

If God has such a grand purpose for us (to be agents of blessing and reconciliation), why does it often seem that our biggest source of chaos is our own family? How do we trust God when we have so much family baggage?

• The God of Family Dysfunction - Ryan Sutherland
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The God of Chaos - Part 2 (Genesis 15)

Wouldn't you expect God to just take care of our chaos so that we can get on with his purposes? Instead you see the opposite - chaos only increases (2nd Law of Thermodynamics) as mankind spreads over the earth. We continue to explore our purpose in light of life's chaos

• The God of Chaos - Part 2 - Ryan Sutherland
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The God of Chaos (Genesis 1)

What is God's purpose for humanity? How do we make progress with so much chaos in our lives? We go back to the beginning chapter of Scripture in order to find answers to some of these questions.

• The God of Chaos - Ryan Sutherland
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