By Jill Roberts
Posted: March 9, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé In most of our lives, the circumstance of a delay causes us frustration, if not all out anger. The thing delayed does not even have to be something desirable. For example, how many times have we been frustrated by a delay in getting somewhere we really didn’t want
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: March 2, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael said something so profound when he had the following insight: “Great thought is not just given by God to one person. When one is gifted great thought, it comes in a sequence and it comes to more than a single person.” When, as now, we
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 24, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael writes so astutely that, “The building blocks to thought are not always wins. Some of the biggest disasters are the best learning curves to the ultimate win.” Last week, God had Moses and Aaron in recovery mode after an enormous disaster in their initial dealings
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 16, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé How does God deal with people He sends on mission when those individuals become discouraged and even recalcitrant toward God and the mission itself? Michael and I believe very few questions could be more important than this one. Why? It is highly relevant to each of our lives
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 11, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Does it amaze you as much as it does Michael and myself, that, rather than just acting with His limitless power to carry out His will on Earth, God chooses to act through mankind? After this week’s study, our already existing feelings regarding this will only have grown.
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: February 3, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael says that, “Studying Scripture was always intended. by God as a learning experience.” This week, we look at Scripture concerning the actions of two very different men – the Pharaoh, God’s enemy, and Moses, God’s chosen deliverer of the Israelites. What paradigm could we be
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 25, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael sums up the entire Old Testament Book of Exodus, when he says, “Moses was one real man who was chosen by God to lead a People.” In our secular realm, we have all heard the term, “destiny’s child.” Well, this description of a predetermined path
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 19, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Michael and I want to thank you, our fearless readers, for hanging in with us through over six months in Genesis! We believe this study was an eye opener as to our God. Michael’s idea for this series of blogs has always been to, “Show that the
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 13, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Everybody already knows the Biblical story of Joseph! Anyone who has been in Sunday School or attended, however sporadically, even a few Church services, has heard about the Hebrew teenager whose jealous brothers threw him into a dry well and then arranged for him to be sold into
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By Jill Roberts
Posted: January 6, 2023
By Jill Roberts and Michael Canalé Recently, we quoted Michael when he said, “Certain words trigger certain parts of the brain.” How true and highly relevant this is to this week’s blog. It brings us to pose a question to you, our readers, one Michael and I have asked ourselves. That is:
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