Isaac digs one well after another as each is taken from him, until there is finally room. On persistence, and on what you leave behind you in the ground.
Genesis 26:12-16 and Isaac sowing in a year of famine and reaping a hundredfold — paired with a parenting seminar on not losing your children to the world while building…
Genesis 26 opens a new run through Isaac's story: a famine, an instruction not to go down to Egypt, and the faith it takes to stay.
Matthew 8:14-17. Peter's mother-in-law healed with a touch, and she gets up and serves — read standing, because the word itself is the tool that changes people.
Matthew 8:28-34 and the two demon-possessed men at Gennesaret. The key word is authority, and where it actually sits.
Matthew 8 and the cleansing of a leper — an unplanned detour into a chapter where the kingdom of God breaks into a broken world.