You can imagine the scene—a group of friends chatting over coffee, talking about a mutual friend. She couldn’t be there because she is out of town for that thing she does. It’s one of many things she does well, and her life is full of adventures as her various talents and abilities take her here,…

Last week we began to look at the story of Joseph, as recorded in the closing chapters of Genesis. As we saw, the first thing to acknowledge about Joseph is that he is God’s chosen instrument to deliver the descendants of Abraham from the threat of famine, and to bring them to Egypt where they…

Character studies from the Old Testament can be good and bad. On the bad side, we may read the story of someone like Joseph and make mistaken applications to our own lives, as though the story is about us somehow, without appreciating the role of the story in the unfolding plan of God for redemption…