Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him: “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.
Genesis 28:1-2
In this Part 4 of Amos, Pastor Stuart McAlpine presents a sermon on how Amos predicted the imminent destruction of Israel and Judah.
We have trouble with this. We mistake uniformity for unity. We mistake intellectual agreement for unity. But there is no mistaking the oil of...
The basic social and religious structure of ancient life was built around the household, which was much more expansive than today’s family unit. In...
