Genesis 37:2

This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 6th & 7th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

So we say, “My father was not rich, and so the house we lived in was either rented or shabbily apportioned.”

Into the wake of that reality, the idea of powerlessness quickly rushes, and we start to imagine what if we had a different introduction to the world and how that would have dramatically altered how we turned out. And so, that we turned up and how we turned out are not far apart in our sense of the fairness or unfairness of our positioning. Lurking behind this audible or silent dialog is another idea that sooner or later surfaces, unable to remain concealed for simply being too noisy to hide. That idea is victim and its associated notions of victimhood and the like.  [BN, 1]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
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