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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Sibling Rivalry
Description: We continue reading the Bible with our second Genesis reading today, the story of Joseph and his brothers, and their jealousy erupting in their throwing him into a pit. For us it prompts a study of “Shalom,” most often translated, “peace,” but meaning much more a complete state of well-being wherein everything is right with the family or with the world. It begins with the creation as “very good,” and the Garden of Eden. The theme of humans falling short and God working for Shalom continues throughout the entire scripture. Human failure happens in families today much as it happened in the famil...