EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Friday

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Friday

We pray and reflect about this week’s topic. You can [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink] online, or by starting a local discussion group! Are you meeting just once a week with your discussion group?  You can find all of this week’s discussion material in our Weekly Study Guide

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Thursday

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Thursday

Welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, your host for this daily challenge. It’s Thursday, the day we try to apply and live out what we’ve learned this week from the Bible. This week we’ve been studying the story of Jacob and his brother Esau in the Old Testament; how they’ve been estranged for about […]

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Wednesday

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Wednesday

Hi, welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, your host for the Daily Challenges. Yesterday we read the story of Jacob and Esau in the Old Testament. They were brothers who had always been in each other’s face, especially Jacob, being the younger son, always trying to get ahead of the older son. He tried […]

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Tuesday

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Tuesday

Hi. Welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, your host of the daily challenges. Today is Tuesday, the day we study the Bible together. This week we’re going to study the story of Jacob and Esau, two brothers in the Old Testament part of the Bible, who’ve been estranged for about 20 years. They’d had […]

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Monday

EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile – Monday

Hi, welcome to Redeem the Commute. I’m Ryan, your host for the daily challenges. It’s a new week so we’re introducing a new topic as part of our series called Epic where we’ve been exploring how Jesus is found throughout the Old Testament part of the Bible. We’re reading some epic old stories from the […]

Group Study Guide: EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile

Group Study Guide: EPIC: Jacob & Esau Reconcile

Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: When have you been forgiven? Was it a surprise to you, unexpected but welcome, or did you feel it was simply deserved and what you […]

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Friday

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Friday

We pray and reflect on this week’s challenges. You can [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink] online, or by starting a local discussion group! Are you meeting just once a week with your discussion group?  You can find all of this week’s discussion material in our Weekly Study Guide

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Thursday

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Thursday

We’ve studied a story this week about Jacob wrestling with God.  What do we learn from this?  On the one hand, we see from this story that fighting with God isn’t punished by death on the spot.  Jacob’s shock is that he survives the ordeal.  God let him win! It’s all a sign, foreshadowing what […]

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Wednesday

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Wednesday

This week we’re studying a story about Jacob, who had a surprise wrestling match with a mysterious opponent.  After wrestling all night Jacob got a new name, a limp, and a blessing from his opponent.  I asked yesterday if you knew who he’d been wrestling with, and what clues you used to decide.  Here are […]

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Tuesday

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Tuesday

https://vimeo.com/120080344  Last week, we learned about Abraham and Isaac.  Now we’ll skip a generation, to Isaac’s son Jacob.  This puts him right in the succession plan for God’s promise to Abraham.  He said he’d bless the world through Abraham’s many descendants, and Jacob is third in that line. Here’s the story of a significant event […]

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Monday

EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God – Monday

https://vimeo.com/119918497  Last week we saw amazing pictures on social media of the incredible amounts of snow that fell in Eastern Canada – sometimes over 2 feet in just one snowfall! Maybe you’ve seen the same stories circulating of people working for hours to dig out their car, only to find they can’t get in, or […]

Group Study Guide: EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God

Group Study Guide: EPIC: Jacob Struggles with God

Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: Have you ever fought for something, then realized it was the wrong goal, or the wrong target? Reading: The same night [Jacob] arose and took […]