Pastor Matt Harrison, President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate, is the author of the

Issues, etc. book of the month for June. Take courage encouraging words for discouraging times.

This new resource reminds discouraged Christians of the one thing right in the world,

the person who alone has overcome the world. Find out more about take courage at issuesetc.org

or by calling Concordia Publishing House 1-800-325-3040. Take courage by Pastor Matt Harrison,

the Issues, etc. book of the month.

Very early in Joseph's life, God makes a promise in the form of a dream and it's

a little cryptic. There are his mother and his father and his brothers bowing down to him in these

symbolic dreams that he has that gets him into a lot of trouble with his brothers eventually,

as sold as a slave to Egypt and then in time the leader of all Egypt. But God keeps the promise

made in that dream. The brothers eventually do come and not once but three times bow down before

him. Greetings and welcome to Issues, etc. coming to you live from the studios of Lutheran

Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois. I'm Todd Wilkin, thanks for tuning us in. We'll be teaching

a Sunday school lesson on God helps Joseph forgive his brothers in Genesis chapters 42, 43, and 45

Pastor Tom Baker of Long Gospel will be our guest. Katie Shurman joins us after that to discuss

Christian romance novels. There are some problems in there. We'll go through the Issues, etc.

There are a comment line for a few minutes and then Joy Pullman joins us executive editor of

the Federalist. We'll talk about a Washington Post story titled the revolt of the Christian

home schoolers. Pastor Tom Baker is host of the radio show called Law and Gospel. For almost

30 years, he met monthly to prepare his Sunday school teachers for the classroom. Tom, welcome

back. Thank you. How did Jacob's sons come to Egypt before Joseph?

They came because there was a big famine, not only in Egypt, but throughout the world at that time,

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