Joseph the Success
Joseph the success Genesis 39: 6-23 & 41: 17-57. I can remember one of the first jokes that Rev. George Sherry told me. A priest and a minister were on a train arguing about how to do mass/communion. They were getting more and more het up about the way it should be done and how the other one did it the wrong way. Until the priest eventually had had enough and just said, ‘Look, let’s just agree to disagree. You do it your way, and we’ll do it God's way.’ I recalled that story
Dreams and dysfunctions.
Dreams and dysfunctions. Genesis ch37 v2b – 36. Part 1 Dreams. By the time Joseph was born into a family of ten brothers and several sisters, his father Jacob was an old man. As head of the clan, Jacob seemed to think he should behave as he pleased, which involved showing favouritism and unconditional love to Joseph. This created a schism between his older brothers and himself. The brothers saw that Joseph was different, there were to be no hand me downs for Joseph, only th
Prayer from Gil Harvie
Great and magnificent God, we are in awe of you. You are so all-encompassing that we can never fully understand the breadth and depth of your being. When we try to look at the immensity and variety of the universe that you have created, we realise that we can only get a tiny glimpse of your power. Your capability and power are all beyond our human comprehension, but we thank you that you are never unapproachable. You hear the prayers of all your people of differing races and
The Tower that should not have been built
The Tower that should not have been built Genesis 11: 1-9. 7/10/18 I have been going nuts over this passage for about a month. When Gil realised that our harvest was the week before when the material said it should be, he wanted to confirm that we were moving harvest to today. And I said that we would keep harvest when we always had it and switch the two weeks around so the passage we were meant to use last week, this passage, we would just use this week. Gil wasn't happy wit