Platforms For Success

 It's that time of the year again.     Ever notice that immediately after Christmas you are inundated with Weight Loss and Gym membership commercials ?  Of course they are sandwiched between sports programs where the most perfect and fabulous bodies are on display for your entertainment pleasure. Which leads us to the annual question " What's your New Years Resolution ? "  Which is really about the idea of change ....  Do people change ?  Can people change ?   How can we change ?  How can we change or improve for the better ? Professor and philosopher  Allan Bloom ( deceased )  of the  University of Chicago , wrote a book back in the Eighty's called The Closing Of The American Mind . In this weighty tome one of the main assertions was that  " America is becoming a nation which can identify the perfect body, but has no idea of the  perfect soul "   Think about that .......   for a second. ...

 Hello Friends.....  Been away for a while on vacation. Refreshing, but now I'm back with something new for you to consider. So I'm doing this study on the Life of Joseph and I am asking you to consider how does the idea of FAVOR affect both Joseph's life and our lives too. So there's is very much to consider when we look at this most fascinating life story in Genesis and we can certainly learn much from his life experiences. So let's look at one of the most obvious parts of the story , they have even made a Broadway Show about his " technicolor " coat or as we like to call it " the coat of many colors " Something we need to consider is that he received this coat from his father Jacob, so it appears that he was certainly favored by his father, but if we really dig further and ask the obvious question " why did he only have a special coat  his brothers had none " This is apparently not a coat of FAVOR but a coat of favoritism. I certainl...