Sermons by Bruce Wersen (Page 2)

Some struggles are meant to be resisted. Others are meant to be escaped. Joseph’s finest moment came when he ran away from lust toward his supreme love.

What’s your master desire? The driving force that forces all other drives to fall in line?

When it comes to her cubs, it’s the lioness who provides and comforts and protects. It’s a picture of a mother’s warm, comforting arms … and claws.

Joseph quickly goes from being dumped like garbage in a pit, to being placed in the most powerful house in the most powerful city in the most powerful country.

Jacob’s dream paints a prophetic picture of our heavenly Father and the infinite gap that’s filled and fulfilled with Christ’s resurrection.

What’s so amazing about the R-rated testimony of Joseph, is that even though he’s repeatedly victimized, he refuses to play the victim.

Like Joseph, we’re being refined and strengthened to appreciate blessings and resist temptations.

Joseph avoids being murdered by his brothers. However, his deliverance is by way of enslavement. Hard to see that as an upgrade, unless you’re in the pit.

Joseph’s horrific journey highlights God’s purpose, peace, and power against a dark backdrop of abuse, neglect, and abandonment.