Learning From OT Greats: Jacob – Wrestling With Purpose

A Father's Path

In the Beginning: A Study in Genesis 37-50

Origins: The Dreamers (Genesis 42–50)

Advent: Catholic Reflections

Year of the Bible: Part Two of Twelve 

The Thread: Part II

Genesis 49:3-4

Reuben, my firstborn, you are my strength and the beginning of my sorrow: first in gifts, greater in authority.
You are being poured out like water, may you not increase. For you climbed onto your father's bed, and you defiled his resting place.