Religion & Spirituality
A podcast designed to help you engage with the Bible daily! Each day, we begin with a reading assignment, designed to take no longer than a few minutes. Then a few minutes of thoughts, comments and questions follow, to help you more fully engage with the text, and to consider throughout the day or to help you begin journaling. It's not the intent to be exhaustive in covering everything, or even to tell you what you should think about a given text. The main idea is to give you a starting point to begin thinking through and engaging with the text yourself, whether you a seasoned Bible student, or this is your first time reading the Bible. The reading selections are kept purposefully small, to make it as easy as possible to develop the discipline of regular Bible reading, and more importantly Bible engaging! It also helps make it possible to catch up if you fall behind a few days. March 20, 2017: Genesis 47 Jacob and Jospeh's brothers have an audience with Pharaoh, where they discuss being shepherds by occupation. Pharaoh gives Jacob's family the land of Goshen to live in and pasture their flocks, as well as charges them with the care of his own livestock. Then, Jacob blesses the king of Egypt. The famine continues, and eventually the people of Egypt have to sell their livestock, their land and themselves to the Pharaoh in order to continue to buy grain throughout the famine. In the end, the people survive, and the Pharaoh has more centralized control over the people of Egypt, as well as what amounts to an income tax of 20%. Question to consider: * Do you think it was a good thing, or a bad thing that the Egyptian people had to end up selling so much so that they could eat and survive? Why didn’t Joseph just give them grain for free?