Review: Between the Wild Branches by Connilyn Cossette

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Amazon’s Description: Ten years ago Lukio fled Kiryat-Yearim, where he’d been adopted by the Levite family who guarded the Ark of the Covenant. Feeling betrayed by everyone, he returned to his birthplace in Philistia to become a famous fighter. Now the champion of Ashdod, Lukio has achieved every goal with the help of his ruthless cousin. But just as he …

Five Ways Joseph Foreshadows Christ

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Only six more days until Christmas 2022. Is your shopping done? Are you hosting family this year or traveling? Have you ever considered all the ways Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, was a foreshadowing of God’s Only Begotten? Of course, Christ is the one and only Incarnate Son–fully God and fully man–but Joseph’s birth was also miraculous. Though not a virgin …

Cover Design – In Feast Or Famine

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I love a good hotdog, fresh off the grill or while watching a baseball game at a stadium with family. What I wouldn’t love is watching the process of making hotdogs. I’ve heard some pretty icky things go into those “tube steaks,” so sometimes ignorance-is-bliss, right? Well, NOT with cover design! Today, you and I get to dive into the …

Celebrating One God at Christmas

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Ho-ho-how do we ignore the commercialism associated with Christmas and focus on the ho-ho-holy God who invaded earth in a lowly manger? Perhaps it would help to remember that our struggle is neither new to our generation nor unique to our culture. When Joseph was released from prison and elevated to the second-highest ruler in Egypt, he also faced unique challenging …

An Egyptian Rapunzel: Were Both Joseph & Asenath Held Captive?

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Fact or Fiction: Joseph’s wife Asenath was held captive in a tower before she married Joseph? Well, I counted it as sort of both. An ancient Jewish novel, written sometime between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D., tells the story of Joseph and Asenath. It was reworked a few centuries later as ancient Christian fiction! Fascinating, huh, to think that “biblical …