Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Life Examples: Jacob: Wrestling with God (Gen. 32:24-32) 
The story of Jacob alternately comforts and confounds. For while we could look upon many of his decisions with contempt-and even wonder why God would so favor such a man-it equally reassures us to realize that the God who extended grace to
                    
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                    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 30, 2023
                
                
                
                    Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But, ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world
                    
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                    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Oct 13, 2023
                
                
                
                    The great preacher Charles Spurgeon interprets part of Micah’s prophecy to refer to pre-New-Testament sightings of Jesus. He gives the examples of Abraham, Jacob, Joshua, and the three heroes of Babylonian Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 
Observe for a moment here, that each of these four great
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 6, 2024
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Another little me story, I went through a real struggle, mainly of my own making, thinking and due to anger and too much caffeine in Sri Lanka, where I was awake all night and ended up in hospital due to an atrial fibrillation that took 4 days to come right. Why do I share this with you, you are
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 10, 2024
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A bit of an aside, I can remember when I have pulled a few all night jobs out of necessity back in my power distribution days when a fault would require repairing, nothing like a 24 plus hour day to exhaust you. Lack of sleep is never a good thing, but in Jacob’s case it led to a change in the man
                    
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