Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. It's a Wednesday, but I'm by myself. We don't have a student guest. And that's because all of our students are recovering from their retreat, D-Town, this past weekend,

which looked amazing, and it's so, so abundantly clear that God is working mightily through

our students and their leaders here in Dallas. And regardless of where you live, or how old

you are, I'm glad we're reading the Bible together, and all of us can get a

glimpse at what our students experienced at D-Town this past weekend by checking up the new

songs released by Watermark Waves, which are available on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen

to, listen to music. My personal favorite is the song soon. That said, we've only got a few minutes, and today we are in

Genesis 35 and 36, which really Genesis 35 lays an important framework for our understanding of the

rest of the Old Testament and really the Bible as a whole. So let me kind of illustrate this for you. I recently

switched to a different office up at the church, which is so nice, the church building, and I'm

really grateful. But prior to the move, I've officed in a cubicle, a shared office space,

and like a desk in a communal workspace type area hallway-ish. So now that I'm in an office, I can write scripts

in the quiet, host meetings, etc. But up until now, I haven't needed any office furniture.

And during those ice storm snow days, I scoured the internet for the best sales and finally

ordered furniture. And one of the pieces that I purchased

was a metal glass top coffee table. And this table has sat unboxed and unassembled on the floor

for a week now. So every day, I walk into the office and I stare at the frame. I want you to

picture it. A rectangular black metal

coffee table. The glass top is still in a box, but the metal pieces are just lying in a pile.

At first glance, it doesn't look like a table. I mean, if anything, it may look like the frame

to a tiny toddler bed or something because it's just strips of metal.

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