Even events that we may perceive as negative are ultimately part of a greater plan that is under God's control. Christ followers, remember this: God is for you!

Jacob’s deathbed blessing points to a coming ruler, revealed to us as Jesus the Messiah, who will reign forever and ever.

Adoption into the family of God is the great blessing reserved for those who trust in Christ.

Joseph's role in God's plan was to protect God's seed. He did that by using God's gifts to him to their utmost. We all are called to do the work we have been given to the best of our ability to honor the Lord.

Moving Israel to Goshen outside Egypt, Joseph wished to protect his family from the influences of Egyptian society. The Kingdom of God, although within our midst, is not a part of this present world.

God, in Christ and by his Spirit, is creating a new humanity who are blessed and kept by his sovereign grace.

Offering forgiveness is not easy at times, but we are called to forgive because we have been forgiven. When we do so, we are set free.

God has made those in Christ a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come. The substitutionary sacrifice of Christ has purchased our freedom from sin and has made us alive in Christ.

When the bonds of age-old bitterness begin to break by the Spirit of God, the relief is overwhelming. Bitterness destroys both parties in its grips– but the party holding the grudge is destroyed more thoroughly. Self-pity is incredibly destructive...

God is a great redeemer. He fixes many broken things. Nevertheless, sin still finds us out. Conviction for that sin is a gift, not a curse. It leads to hope...and a way out.