New SERIES!
We're talking about Joseph. You may know the story — punk kid, coat of many colors (although that's probably a bad translation), has a few dreams, brothers sell him into Egyptian slavery, succeeds and takes on a bunch of responsibility, gets accused of rape, goes to prison, interprets some dreams in "prison," takes on more responsibility, climbs the ladder, gets some "mental revenge" on his brothers, reconnects with his family, forgives his brothers, and then neatly ties the whole thing up into theological truism.
Now ... preaching all that? It's hard. We want to reduce it to a moral or a point (usually the whole theological truism bit mentioned above). It's my hope that we hear the story, we note some new pieces of information, and we let this story sit with us, that we ask questions of it, that we enter in and consider — what is God up to? what are these characters up to? what's going on?
So in Week 01 ... we set the stage.
the restoration project. Joshua James. 10 January 2021
