The revchristruelsen’s Podcast

Life Turns the Page and Sometimes You're Not Ready

Today’s discussion is about big life changes . . . .  They can be thrilling, and they can also be devastating . . . .  The good news is that the biggest change to come will be the most glorious one of all, in Jesus Christ . . . . .

 

Genesis 35.  

 

The Hymn is "This Joyful Eastertide" 482. (A public domain hymn).  

This Joyful Eastertide

This week I share a newly recorded public domain hymn, "This Joyful Eastertide", hymn #482.

When the World Encroaches on YOUR World

The discussion this week is regarding Genesis 34

 

Some of the topics in Genesis deal with difficult events, and if you are listening with younger listeners, this topic in Genesis 34 may not be for them, unless you have read and talked with them about it first.  You may want to listen to the lesson and the discussion that follows before you decide to share it with younger listeners.  

This week's discussion is about the story of Dinah . . . . 

The Dreaded Reunion

If we were looking at an episode of an action series, we might entitle this "Jacob and Esau, the final battle!", but it didn't really happen that way.  Jacob dreads confronting Esau, but does he need to be fearful?  Come, let us look together at Genesis 33.    

 

God at Play

 

We move on to Genesis 32 this week:

We ALWAYS see God at work, but in this one, we get to see God at PLAY!  What's that supposed to mean?  Listen and find out . . . . 

We Do Not Worship a god You Can Sit On

In this episode we discuss Genesis 31.  Jacob finally flees from the presence of his father in law Laban.  Rachel takes the household gods of Laban, and sits on them . . . .  What do we make of this?  

 

 

Good Friday Way of the Cross Service for 2021

This is the Stations of the Cross service for 2021 with lessons and verses of hymns surrounding the Passion account of Christ.  

 

The service ends with the Lord's Prayer . . . .  We know that the story of the passion is completed with Easter and the story of the empty tomb . . . . 

Tricky Laban

On this Palm Sunday weekend we read about the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, and the Passion account. 

Our discussion is over Genesis 30 -  People think they are tricky, but regardless, God's will will be done.  

Our discussion about this one details an unusual bargain over a mandrake, and Jacob's family and flock grows . . . .

This one also features a new recording of "Christ the Life of All the Living" #420 - a public domain hymn.  

Stricken, Smitten, and Afllicted

Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

#451

A public domain hymn.  

 

Of the Concerns of Cows and Lambs

A little girl with a flower picks off the petals, one by one: "He loves me.  He loves me not."  This one is about Jacob's love for Rachel . . . and his other wife, Leah.  

Human love can be fickle and unfair.  God loves his children with the love that only a gracious father could.  This is the story of Genesis 29

 

The hymn is "Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted" #451

A public domain hymn.