Esau

Spring Reflection on Pastoral Year Experience Pastoral Reflection: The last 6 months of Pastoral Year has been a great blessing. The people in the Parish received me with such love and care. It will certainly be hard to step away in 3 months time when the Pastoral Year ends. During this Pastoral Year, I have gotten to really know a lot of people in the Parish, some closer than others. A couple that I got to know real well is the Bernard and Rosemarie Scheiff. They treat me like their own son.…

ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE “To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams”. I Samuel 15:22 My Dear friends, I greet you in the most precious name our saviour Jesus Christ! In our Christian walk, obedience is very important. God wants every one of us to be obedient. He demands not simple obedience but absolute Obedience. What is absolute obedience? Absolute obedience is to be ready to carry out every instruction given by God. God requires prompt, complete…

A Religion is a structured spiritual practice with a formal organization supporting it with rules and purposes, sacred texts, sacred place, claimed origins, rituals and practices, and a spiritual leadership structure. Religions, particularly Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, are very similar because of their shared ancestral roots, sacred text, holy people, and theological beliefs. All three religions trace their ancestry back to Abraham (Hebrew, Ibrahim). Abraham is considered a great…

purchasing at the same rates and not be effected by the soon to come price increase based on the upcoming demand, the buyer had a requirements contract prepared. Similarly, in the scripture, Jacob went in to his father and claimed to be his Brother Esau, in an effort to steal the birthright blessing. Jacob deceived his father into giving him something that was not…

The covenants between Noah and Abraham weere different as follow. The covenant with Abraham and his children involved all the males being circumcised as a sign of their covenant with God. One of the Judaism resulted from the covenant between God and Abraham in the Old Testament about the chosen people. Abraham’s covenant is related to non-Jews as such his faithfulness was used as a channel flowing with blessings from God. Thereby, God’s promises to the Gentiles was under the umbrella of…

There are many determinations one can make by the references found here in this portion of scripture. All the way through Genesis we read about human conflict. In fact, Genesis begins with numerous stories of fratricidal conduct: Cain kills Abel, Esau threatens Jacob, and here Joseph is nearly killed by his brothers. I appreciate the honesty of scripture. The word of God never hides the harsh realties of our fallen human condition. The bible seems to propose that in view of the fact that we are…

Jacob to the palace. A major difference between Abraham and Jacob was that Abraham, once he acquired his wealth, shared his prosperity with friends and strangers. He was known for his welcoming nature. Jacob, was always running away. First from Esau his older brother, and then from other enemies. Another difference between the two patriarchs was that Abram left his family and was led to a place shown to him by God. Jacob, other than his split with his brother, surrounded himself with family…

“MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM” The Egyptian children of Joseph were given two tribes among the children of Israel, and their tribes were known to be the tribe of Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 13:8, 11). These tribes became leaders among the Hebrews and Jewish communities. Moses was able to select two people from each tribe of the Egyptian sons of Joseph to spy the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:1-2,8,11,16). Manasseh was given his father's place, he took over the tribe of Joseph which was among the twelve…

The Peasants’ War was a time of violence and rebellion; there is no question about that. But who can be seen as responsible for instilling the use of force as a solution for the injustice by the Church and lords? Arguably the two largest leaders in the Peasants’ War and the German Reformation were Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer. Although they both wanted to fix injustices, they used very different forms of rhetoric to do so. Martin Luther’s writings condemned violence and asked rebels to…

Not only were they separated from God but they also were separated from each other. All throughout the old testament siblings are against one another. Cain and Abel, Joseph and his brothers, Jacob and Esau, and Rebecca and Lea are just a few names. But it was not just separation from family but also from the people in the surroundings lands. Noah was isolated from the people because he was faithful to God. The people around him were doing unrighteous…