Vicar Matt Doebler
Matins Devotions: March 27, 2023
Exodus 2:1-22 Pharaoh had just ordered the slaughter of all male Hebrew children by casting them into the waters of the Nile River in...
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MATINS DEVOTIONS
Vicar Matt Doebler
- 4 days ago
- 3 min
Matins Devotion: March 24, 2023
Genesis 46: 1-5; 47:1-31 For Jacob, this journey down into Egypt was bittersweet. For over twenty years, he had believed his beloved son...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- 5 days ago
- 3 min
Matins Devotion: March 23, 2023
Genesis 45: 1-20, 24-28 Today we read the climax of the Joseph story. The big reveal has happened. The masked Egyptian has unmasked...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 22, 2023
Genesis 44:1-18, 32-34 Once again, in our reading from Genesis, Judah shows that he is a Christian. He shows how his heart and his mind...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 21, 2023
Genesis 43:1-28 In yesterday’s devotion, I talked about how Jacob’s grief has made him irrational and despondent. His sorrow over the...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 20, 2023
Genesis 42 Grief has a nasty habit of making people crazy, irrational and despondent. We see that with Jacob in our Old Testament reading...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 17, 2023
Genesis 40 Ancient Egyptian religion placed a high value on dreams and their interpretations. The ancient Egyptians believed that sleep...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 16, 2023
Genesis 39 It’s easy to miss the point of this episode in the life of Joseph. To see it as a kind of Old Testament soap opera starring a...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 15
- 3 min
Matins Devotion: March 15, 2023
Genesis 37 What is the special coat that Jacob makes Joseph? The one that we so famously call the “coat of many colors?” And why does it...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 14, 2023
Genesis 35:1-29 So much death. So much sorrow. So much fear. So much uncertainty. We see all of these things swirling about Jacob and...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 13, 2023
Genesis 29:1-30 Who can you really trust? Well, sometimes it seems like there is no obvious answer to that question. It always amazes...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Mar 10
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 10, 2023
Mark 8:1-21 In our reading from Mark this morning, the Pharisees are once again following the foolish liturgy of sign-seeking that...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 9
- 3 min
Matins Devotion: March 9, 2023
Genesis 24:1-31 We are told two important things about Abraham in the opening verse of our Old Testament reading: Abraham is old—and...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 8, 2023
Genesis 22:1-19 When God provides a sacrifice atop Mount Moriah, why is it a ram, rather than a lamb? Why is the mighty ram the animal to...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 7, 2023
Genesis 21 Family life in the Scriptures is often quite messy, which is something we see in our reading from Genesis this morning. Poor...
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Pastor Hans Fiene
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 6, 2023
Mark 6:14-34 There’s nothing more terrifying than a bad conscience. There’s nothing ghostlier, nothing that haunts us more than the guilt...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 3, 2023
Genesis 13 We see something interesting when we read the previous account of Abraham’s journey into Egypt in light of today’s reading. In...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 2
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 2, 2023
Genesis 11:27-12:20 When God demands that Abraham leave his father’s household—he’s not just telling him to relocate geographically. No,...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: March 1, 2023
Genesis 8:13-9:17 After the flood waters subside from the face of the earth. And after all the occupants of the ark have disembarked,...
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Vicar Matt Doebler
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Matins Devotion: February 28, 2023
Genesis 7:11-8:12 At the beginning of Genesis, we’re told that the Earth is without form and void and that the Spirit of God is hovering...
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