Stewards in Action

This is the last Stewards in Action blog. We thank you for being with us on this journey. Check out the Good News Generosity blog coming in early 2022. Reflect What are some of the greatest acts of forgiveness you can recall that you have witnessed personally? Forgiveness requires a largeness of heart that is […]

Reflect What a curious situation to find yourself in if you are Joseph. You’re a slave, sitting in a dungeon in chains. One day you show an aptitude for dream interpretation, and suddenly you are transported from bondage into a powerful position just beneath the ruler. Joseph could have tried to use his gift as […]

Reflect In one of the most familiar stories in the Old Testament, the story of Joseph and his brothers, we see what happens when a parent favors one child over the others. The reason itself does not matter—the fact that the brothers witness their father’s greater love for Joseph simply because he is the son […]

Reflect When the time comes for Jacob to return to his homeland, he is understandably nervous about it. After all, he swindled his brother twice and then ran away. His last view of his brother—and the one he has carried with him during the intervening years—is of Esau filled with rage and vowing to kill […]

Reflect Jacob pushed his luck too far with Esau by stealing not only his brother’s birthright but his father’s blessing as well. With Esau bent on revenge, Jacob must run away to save his own skin. During his flight, he receives extraordinary news from God—God’s plans for Jacob are that he will receive the land […]

Reflect What a soap opera Genesis 25-27 is: jealousy, manipulation, and deceit. A story of two brothers driven by desire. One is more concerned with his immediate hunger than with his heritage. The other is so consumed by desire he cons his brother into giving him his birthright and deceives his father into bestowing on […]

Reflect Put yourself in Abraham’s place. God has just asked you to sacrifice the most precious thing in the world—your child, your marriage, your health, your home. You name it—God wants it. What would you do? Could you follow God’s commands to sacrifice your child as unquestioningly as Abraham did. But wait, you say. “I […]

Reflect The story of the birth of Abraham and Sarah’s son, Isaac, should give us encouragement when we feel that our petitions to God are falling on deaf ears. Granted, people lived much longer lives in biblical times than we do now, but Abraham and Sarah still were too old by any stretch of the […]

  Reflect Abraham and Sarah’s story is quite extraordinary, for in it, God calls two people considered well past their prime to do things that people their age simply didn’t do: move to another country and start a family. But their faith in God’s plan for their lives helped them carry out God’s wishes in […]

Reflect The God of the Old Testament was very much an action-response sort of God. The story of Noah and the ark is a good examples of this view. Humankind sinned; God brought a flood and, with the exception of Noah and his family, wiped them all out. We tend to think in biblical proportions […]