Don Fawcett

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  • laws

    Exodus 22:5 (ESV)
    "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • various laws

    Exodus 21:1 (ESV)
    "Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • at sinai

    Exodus 19:1 (ESV)
    On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Moses ad Burnout and the MBA from Jethro

    Exodus 18:1 (ESV)
    Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • water from the rock

    Exodus 17:1 (ESV)
    All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Exodus 16:1

    Exodus 16:1 (ESV)
    They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Partial Obedience Not Good Enough

    Several terms Pharaoh tries to cut a deal with Moses and God. He wants partial obedience, and he apparently is insincere even about that. He claims he will let the people go, but they can only travel…

    Created 2 months ago

  • Pharaoh

    Pharaoh is hard hearted and will not let the people go. And, his magicians have been able, through Satanic power, to reproduce the first two plagues. They made the water turn into blood and frogs to come…

    Created 2 months ago

  • Moses Still ARguing About His Gifts

    Moses doesn't just leave the encounter with God at the burning bush confident of his speaking abilities, which he claims are non-existent. After his first encounter with Pharaoh doesn't result in anything…

    Created 2 months ago

  • When Leadership Gets Tough

    No one is going to be a good leader who foolishly thinks it doesn't involve suffering. There is simply no way around it. That kind of thinking is often outside of our contemporary view of leadership.…

    Created 2 months ago

  • Exodus 6:13

    Exodus 6:13 (ESV)
    But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

    Created 2 months ago

  • EX 2, The Reason for Liberation

    When God tells Moses of his intent to liberate the people of Israel from Egyptian bondage, he says he is going to set them free so they can go into the desert to sacrifice to him, or worship. God desires…

    Created 2 months ago

  • EX 2, The Reason for Liberation

    When God tells Moses of his intent to liberate the people of Israel from Egyptian bondage, he says he is going to set them free so they can go into the desert to sacrifice to him, or worship. God desires…

    Created 2 months ago

  • EX 2, The Reason for Liberation

    When God tells Moses of his intent to liberate the people of Israel from Egyptian bondage, he says he is going to set them free so they can go into the desert to sacrifice to him, or worship. God desires…

    Created 2 months ago

  • EX 2, The Reason for Liberation

    When God tells Moses of his intent to liberate the people of Israel from Egyptian bondage, he says he is going to set them free so they can go into the desert to sacrifice to him, or worship. God desires…

    Created 2 months ago

  • The Making of a Leader

    There is a leadership pattern developing here as we read the story of Joseph and then examine the life Moses. The pattern goes something like this- the leader starts off in some position of status or…

    Created 3 months ago

  • The Making of a Leader

    There is a leadership pattern developing here as we read the story of Joseph and then examine the life Moses. The pattern goes something like this- the leader starts off in some position of status or…

    Created 3 months ago

  • The Making of a Leader

    There is a leadership pattern developing here as we read the story of Joseph and then examine the life Moses. The pattern goes something like this- the leader starts off in some position of status or…

    Created 3 months ago

  • The Making of a Leader

    There is a leadership pattern developing here as we read the story of Joseph and then examine the life Moses. The pattern goes something like this- the leader starts off in some position of status or…

    Created 3 months ago

  • Success and Prosperity the Front Door of Failure and Bondage (Ex. 1-2).

    Things have gone well with the people in Egypt as they have enjoyed God's blessing. We want to live in perpetual blessing and prosperity, but often times success is the seed of bondage and failure. The…

    Created 3 months ago

  • There's No Place Like Home

    At the end of Joseph's remarkable life, he makes his brothers swear that they will take his bones back home when he dies. Joseph has operated his entire adult life as a "missionary" in a foreign land-…

    Created 3 months ago

  • Joseph's Trust

    Joseph's brother's don't really understand God, not intimately. After their father dies, they become very frightened because they are afraid that Joseph will now retaliate in anger for all the evil things…

    Created 3 months ago

  • Jacob's Blessing and Death

    Not all of the sons receive the same blessing. Some of them are cursed due to their anger and cruelty and self-will. Even though they are sons of Jacob, he recognizes in them both good qualities and self-centered…

    Created 3 months ago

  • For God's Sake

    Earlier we read that God brought Joseph up out of the pit and blessed him "for Joseph's sake." Now we read in Genesis 41 how God raised Joseph us to preserve life, not only for the pagan Egyptians, but…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 42:1 (KJV)

  • 13 YEARS

    Joseph as 17 when he shared his dream with his brothers and parents. This dream touched off 13 years of suffering for Joseph. Certainly during that time the possibility must have crossed his mind that…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 41:46 (KJV)

  • Genesis 43

    Genesis 41:46 (ESV)
    Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Joseph for Pastor

    Joseph doesn't just have extraordinary abilities to interpret dreams, and he is not simply gifted with administration, but his gifts are clothed with humility and grace, and after all the injustice that…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 41:1 (KJV)

  • Genesis 41:1

    Genesis 41:1 (ESV)
    After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

    Created 3 months ago

  • Joseph God's Man

    Joseph had a dream that his brothers and parents would bow down to him. This would one day happen. Joseph was sold into slavery and comes to be chief steward over everything in Potiphar's house. He is…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 40:1 (KJV)

  • Genesis 40:1

    Genesis 40:1 (NKJV)
    It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

    Created 3 months ago

  • The BRothers Grim

    Anyone who thinks human beings are fundamentally good and who does not affirm the depravity of the human being need only to open their eyes and read this story.  Or, they can look at their world and see…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 38:1 (KJV)

  • Genesis 38:1

    Genesis 38:1 (NKJV)
    It came to pass at that time that Judah departed from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Joseph the Dreamer

    IN scripture and among people of all ages, some are dreamers.  Joseph was a dreamer, but his dram wasn't some adolescent fantasy.  His dream was prophetic, a vision from God of what would come to be during…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 37:12 (KJV)

  • Genesis 37:12

    Genesis 37:12 (NKJV)
    Then his brothers went to feed their fathers flock in Shechem.

    Created 3 months ago

  • God's Faithfulness To HIs Chosen Ones

    Genesis 32-35 is a picture of God's faithfulness in the midst of human frailty, brokenness, fear, dishonesty, deceit, and sin.  Jacob's pattern in life is to solve his problems by deceiving others.  He…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 35:23 (KJV)

  • Genesis 35:23

    Genesis 35:23 (NKJV)
    the sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacobs firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun;

    Created 3 months ago

  • Entire Family of Tricksters

    Jacob, through a selective breading process producing multi-colored and spotted livestock, gains a massive heard at Laban's expense. Finally, after 20 years of work, he decides he has worked long enough…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 32:1 (KJV)

  • Genesis 32:1

    Genesis 32:1 (NKJV)
    So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Old Testament ethics

    What is the modern western reader to make of these shenanigans of the Old Testament people of God?  We see murder, plots, anger, theft of the birthright and the blessing, polygamy, rivalry between two…

    Created 3 months ago

    Genesis 31:1 (KJV)

  • Genesis 31:1

    Genesis 31:1 (NKJV)
    Now Jacob heard the words of Labans sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was our fathers, and from what was our fathers he has acquired all this wealth.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2012-02-17

  • Genesis 27:42

    Genesis 27:42 (NKJV)
    And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Surely your brother Esau comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 25:29

    Genesis 25:29 (NKJV)
    Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2012-02-13

  • Genesis 25:1

    Genesis 25:1 (NKJV)
    Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 22:20

    Genesis 22:20 (NKJV)
    Now it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Indeed Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 21:22

    Genesis 21:22 (NKJV)
    And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 19:30

    Genesis 19:30 (NKJV)
    Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 18:16

    Genesis 18:16 (NKJV)
    Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 13:1

    Genesis 13:1 (NKJV)
    Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 11:1

    Genesis 11:1 (NKJV)
    Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 9:1

    Genesis 9:1 (NKJV)
    So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2012-01-08

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2012-01-04

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2012-01-02