a sermon preached 12 August 2012. Text Genesis 37:11-36
When in the 7th form we played numerous practical jokes on the staff. One day a very loud alarm clock was hidden in the lectern before Assembly, as the deputy-principal began to speak the clock was heard to go off and our class the hall on mass. We knew that the clock was actually a stink bomb and that with the alarm going off so would the bomb. 
As soon as the clock began ticking it was always going to go off, unless somehow someone or something intervened and stopped it.
Last week as we began to understand Jacob’s favouritism, Joseph’s arrogance, and the brothers growing resentment combined to create a stink-bomb – which was simply waiting to explode. Continue reading