“Bless me, even me also, O my father.” Esau arrived moments too late, and many people live in that same posture. But if the blessing is already secured in Christ,…
Genesis 27 and a father's blessing there was only one of. Jacob fights for it and ends up stealing it.
Genesis 26:26-33 and the treaty at Beersheba. The whole chapter repeats Abraham's life almost beat for beat — which is exactly what a parent hopes will not happen.
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.