Joe explains the crucial importance of preaching God's word in the life of the church, then reads and explains a challenging portion--Genesis 38-39. Based on Genesis 38, Joe teaches that God can save you, even if you're the worst sinner. Based on Genesis 39, God can sustain you, even if your enduring the worst suffering. Judah and Joseph probably look back on these monumental turning points in their lives--the humiliating exposure of Judah's corruption and the humiliating injustice after Joseph's exemplary virtue--and remember their worst days as some of their best--because of how God used them. God's providence does that: turns the worst seasons of our lives to be some of the most productive. And that shouldn't surprise Christians, because we understand that (and will forever praise God for) the worst day in history is also the best.
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Joe has served as a shepherd at Tri-County Bible Church in Madison, Ohio since 2005. He's been a believer in Jesus Christ since childhood. He grew up in Vermont, North Carolina, a short bit in Moscow, but mostly in the greater Philadelphia area (making him someone who proudly...