Gen 4 -12 An introduction to Cain and Abel From BI-101-A Introduction to Hebrew Bible In Genesis 4 – 12 we see issues of trust and choices made in context of human relationships, increasing human strife and deterioration of human family. Alongside this picture, we also see God’s continuing passionate relationship with us God keeps asking the characters “Where are you” Genesis 4: murder, sibling rivalry, deceit The brother problem continues throughoutREAD MORE
<a href="https://theopenedbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/shug.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-722" title="shug" src="https://theopenedbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/shug.jpeg" alt="" width="256" height="165" /></a>Brooke discusses hospitality in our lives through an example from a scene in the movie, The Color Purple.
Try praying with a loved one after a dispute or argument (and maybe even before one starts). We tend to call on God or invite God in when things have come and past, but often times we can include God in the heat of the moment. Maybe the earlier we invite the spirit in the less damage will do to ourselves, our love ones and our relationships.
Minister Yolonda Norton addresses the issue that "Well behaved women rarely make history." Harriett Tubman, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Wright Edelman, Hillary Clinton; these women all have a mark in history because they refused to bow down to conventional standards of the world and decided instead to stand up for what they believed to be right. Norton also shows how these women mirrored the actions of overlooked women in TheREAD MORE
