Family Matters - Past from Casas Church on Vimeo. Notes: Family Matters – Past Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your ancestors and to your kindred, and I will be with you.” (Gen 31:3) Face your worse fear. What scares you most in life? “I will be with you.” SaysContinue reading "Family Matters – Past"
What did Ham do when he ‘saw the nakedness of his father?’
I’ve always been confused by Ham “seeing” his father naked and being cursed or it. This post is an absolutely stunning explanation/interpretation of what is not explicitly said in Genesis 9 about Noah and his sons. Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wineContinue reading "What did Ham do when he ‘saw the nakedness of his father?’"
Sermon: Family Matters – Present
Family Matters - Present Has there ever been an ideal Biblical family? The First Family: Adam and Eve raised a murderer God eventually had a do-over with humanity The Second First Family: Noah’s son, Ham, raped his mother while his father was passed out drunk next to her
Poem: The Weirdest Dream
I could see you so clearly, feel you, even, and smell all your scents – you know, the natural ones; the perfumed ones; your hands – so warm, so strong and comforting (all, your essence) – so missed.
Poem: Happy 43rd!
Can’t picture it. Painful to never see you age. Unreal –
ACAD – Remnant: 2 Kings 21
I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. I will cast off the remnant of my heritage, and give them into the hand of their enemies; they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their ancestors came out of Egypt, even to this day.”
ACAD – Remnant: 2 Kings 19
The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out, and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
ACAD – Remnant: 1 Kings 22
Ahaziah, son of Ahab, began to reign over Israel in Samaria; he reigned two years over Israel. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and mother[.] He served Baal and worshiped him; he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
ACAD – Remnant: 2 Samuel 21
Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.
ACAD – Remnant: Judges 5
Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam. Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the Lord marched down for him against the mighty.