This year our Lent study will focus on Joseph from the book of Genesis. Just as Lent is the forerunner to Easter so is Joseph a forerunner to the life of Jesus on earth. We want to look at the life of Joseph and see what his experiences might offer us as we walk through the day leading up to Easter. Joseph was born into a normal family, argued with his brothers, was accused of many things, made fun of, was lost, survived and loved...most especially loved. Does that sound like your family life?
Will you join us for these Forty Faithful Days? There will be a new posting each Sunday, first from Kathy on February 18, then from Scott of February 25...and we will continue our alternating pattern all the way through the Lenten season.
We hope you will explore this story with us and invite others along on our journey.
Scott and Kathy
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.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. Genesis 37-2-4 NIV