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Curated Questions: Conversations Celebrating the Power of Questions Hosted by Ken Woodward, Curated Questions is a thought-provoking podcast that celebrates the art and science of asking profound questions. This podcast is for curious minds who understand that the right question can unlock new perspectives and drive personal growth. What to Expect Insightful Conversations: Experts from diverse fields share their journey in mastering the craft of inquiry, revealing how it has transformed their lives and careers. Practical Techniques: Gain valuable skills to improve your questioning abilities, applicable in both personal and professional settings. Thought-Provoking Topics: Explore how questions shape leadership, personal transformation, and societal discourse. Why Listen? In an age of abundant information, Curated Questions reminds us that true wisdom lies in asking better questions. This podcast will help you: 1. Enhance critical thinking 2. Improve communication 3. Gain new perspectives on complex issues 4. Develop a nuanced understanding of the world Join Ken Woodward and his guests as they explore the transformative power of thoughtful inquiry. Curated Questions is more than just a podcast – it's an invitation to embrace curiosity, challenge assumptions, and unlock your full potential through the art of asking better questions. Subscribe now and embark on a journey to master the craft of inquiry, one question at a time. Website: CuratedQuestions.com IG/Threads/YouTube: @CuratedQuestions
God speaks to Jacob and encourages him that God is committed to him. The everlasting covenant continues with Jacob and it extends after Jacob. God is committed through and through. Additional scripture: Genesis 12:2, 17:1-6 To Abraham: Genesis 12:7, 13:16, 12:3 To Isaac: Genesis 26:3-4 To Jacob: Genesis 28:13-14…
God speaks to Jacob and instructs him to journey to Bethel. Jacob responds with faith to go. And as they go, God puts a defense around the group to ensure their safety. Additional Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:4, Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 12:6, Genesis 28:11-22, Genesis 33:20, Deuteronomy 7:1-2
*sensitive topic warning* After Shechem commits sexual assault against Jacob’s daughter, Jacob and his brothers find out. Then, Shechem and his father, Hamor, ask Jacob if he will give Dinah in marriage to Shechem. Jacob’s sons take matters into their own hands for the response. Additional Scripture: Genesis 17:1-14, James 4:12…
*sensitive topic warning* After Jacob’s family settles in Shechem, his daughter Dinah goes out into the town and is violently assaulted. The predator then acts as if he loves her and wants to marry her. Additional Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28, Hebrews 12:6, Revelation 3:19, Proverbs 10:6, Proverbs 3:29-34…
After the reconciliation with Esau, Jacob does not follow Esau to his home, but continues on into the heart of Canaan. Jacob knows God has called him and he wants to be obedient to the call. Additional Scripture: Romans 14:23, Hebrews 13:5-6, 1 John 4:8, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 14:15, James 4:12
Jacob finally meets Esau and is surprised by Esau’s countenance. Esau welcomes Jacob to prove God matures those He has called, and also to prove there is no value in fearing the unknown. Both men have been blessed and it is God who has provided. Additional Scripture: Matthew 9:9-15, 19-34, Genesis 32:13-15…
After Jacob sends his family and belongings on ahead of him, Jacob stays behind for the night alone. But in his struggle, a mysterious encounter changes him forever and removes his name for another. Additional Scripture: Luke 14:26
After prayer, Jacob sends forth a series of appeasing gifts toward Esau, in hope to dissuade what Jacob fears (but does not know), because he thinks it may help. Additional scripture: Col. 3:5-6, John 16:33, John 1:1-5
Jacob travels toward Canaan and deals with a spectrum of emotion, from faith to fear. God has called him to look ahead, but he starts looking down, when God has called him to look ahead. He prays, confessing his fear and heralding the truths God has promised to him before. Additional Scripture: Luke 18:1-8, John 10:10, 1 John 4:18, 2 Tim. 1:7, Matt. 6:33…
After Laban disobeyed God’s rebuke, after Jacob rightly also rebukes Laban, Laban proposes a protective agreement with Jacob now out of Laban’s fear. Laban sees he is outside of God’s favor, and he confesses Jacob is within God’s favor. Additional Scripture: James 5:12, Mark 4:24, Philippians 4:8, Deuteronomy 31:1-8, John 10:27…
After Laban catches up to Jacob, and derides Jacob, Jacob responds with the plain truth. Jacob has endured mistreatment from Laban for up to 20 years, and God has been a witness to it all. The agreements Laban made multiple times with Jacob, according to Laban, meant nothing. Additional scripture: Matthew 12:34, Ephesians 4:26-27, 31, 1 Peter 5:5, James 4:12, Matthew 5:38-42, 43-46a…
Jacob answers God’s call to leave for Canaan. When Laban finds out, he pursues Jacob in anger and because he believes Jacob has stolen his pagan idols. But God speaks to Laban in a dream, warning him not to speak to Jacob. Additional scripture: Matthew 22:35-39, Genesis 31:3-13, Exodus 20:3-16
After 20 long years, God calls Jacob to go. Jacob relays the commission to his wives, also recounting the oppression of their father, and affirms that as they go, God will go with them. Additional scripture: Genesis 29, Genesis 30, Exodus 29:45, Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 37:25-27, James 5:12
After 14 years in service to Laban, Jacob requests his leave. Laban, taking control, refuses Jacob to leave and continues his abominable behavior against Jacob and his family. Additional Scripture: Romans 1:18-20, Genesis 29:14-25, Proverbs 12:20
After ten sons by other women, because the Lord opened Rachel’s womb, Jacob and Rachel have a son, Joseph, who is eleventh in the birth order, but will be the chosen one to lead the covenantal family line of faith behind Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Additional scripture: Proverbs 16:9, Hebrews 13:8, Exodus 20:18-21…
Rachel and Leah continue in a polygamous marriage with Jacob, and add both of their servants as another two wives in the family. This is not God’s design, and yet, God opens the wombs of these women and gives Jacob ten sons, who would be the first ten of the future twelve tribes of Israel. Additional Scripture: Psalm 37:4…
Faced with a terrible situation and a stressful life, Rachel lashes out in anger and runs to sin by essentially giving Jacob yet another wife, instead of turning to God. Jacob speaks truth to Rachel that the Lord is the one in control, yet Jacob participates in Rachel’s plan. Additional scripture: Genesis 16:1-6, Ephesians 4:26, James 4:11, Proverbs 16:9…
Once Leah and Rachel both marry Jacob, the Lord opens Leah’s womb and she conceives, while Rachel cannot. And the Lord loves them both. Additional Scripture: Psalm 24:1, 1 Samuel 16:7, Proverbs 31:30, and Ecclesiastes 2:10-11
*Sensitive topic warning* Jacob pursues Rachel through an arranged seven-year-long engagement, and, when the day of marriage arrives, Jacob is deceived in an act of evil by her father, Laban. And this controlling act of Rachel’s father will impact the lives of Jacob and Rachel for a very long time – because Laban chose evil.…
Jacob leaves with his parent’s blessing to journey to Haran to meet Laban and marry one of his daughters. Before he arrives to his house, Jacob meets one of the daughters at a well, she, who is "beautiful in form and appearance," Rachel. Additional Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-2, 1 Corinthians 12:12-26…
As Jacob flees from the great anger of his brother, he lays down to sleep in the wilderness and has an incredible dream. The dream is incredible because it is from the Lord, and the Lord speaks to Jacob as He reveals Himself at the top of a ladder in heaven. Additional Scripture: Genesis 15:18-19, 26:4, 13:14-16, 22:17, 12:3, and John 1:43-51…
Despondent over Esau’s pagan wives, Rebekah and Isaac instruct Jacob to go back to get a wife from the house of Laban in Paddan-aram, because they will not permit him to marry a foreign woman. Esau, in turn, adds to his household another wife - this time a relative nearby. Additional Scripture: Genesis 13:7-13, 24:1-4, 26:34-35. 2 Corinthians 6:14. Genesis 2:24. Genesis 9:18-19, 25. Genesis 15:18.…
The choice of Rebekah and Jacob to sin by means of the deception of Isaac changed their family forever. It turned Esau in great anger against Jacob, dishonored Isaac and shook his spirit, and betrayed the honor and respect of Rebekah's marriage and their family. Sin has consequences and sometimes the consequence is huge.…
In the middle of Jacob’s deception, masquerading as Esau, Jacob receives Isaac’s blessing. And though Isaac believes he is blessing Esau, the prophetic blessing spoken from Isaac is a word from the Lord, and therefore later comes true in the life of Jacob. Additional Scriptures: Genesis 25:23, 28:10ff, 30:25ff, 32:22ff, 33:1ff, 32:28, 35:10, Ch. 42-45, 47:9, 47:28-29, 48:13-49:1…
After Rebekah plots deception against her husband, she and Jacob now bring this deception to pass before Isaac, bringing confusion and untruthfulness before him, before he is to give the blessing to Esau. In so doing, they do not bring truth and God’s word to Isaac, and therefore they do not act in holiness. Additional Scripture: Proverbs 14:25-26, Matthew 12:34-35, Exodus 20:3-6…
When Isaac is old, his focus continues to be for Esau. As his sight leaves him, he seeks to bless Esau. But Rebekah overhears Isaac’s intentions and, in a plot to deceive her husband and take advantage of his blindness, because her focus is Jacob, she recruits Jacob to pass himself off as Esau and be the supplanter. [note: technical difficulties prevented an episode on 4.28.24] Additional scripture: 1 Samuel 3:1-21, 1 Samuel 2:12-36, Matthew 13:10-15, 2 Timothy 3:12-13, John 3:19-21…
God appears to Isaac at Beersheba and reminds Isaac, “I am with you.” Isaac then receives an unexpected visit from Abimelech, who proactively reached out to Isaac for the purpose of peace. And the first words out of Abimelech’s mouth at their encounter is a testimony of the Lord.
Isaac follows God’s leading into the land of Gerar, and as he plants, God blesses his yield. From there, God continues to give Isaac more until he had great wealth. So, how will Isaac steward that which he has been given? Because it is the Lord who decides who is given how much. Additional Scripture Ref. Psalm 89:1,11 / Psalm 135:6-7 / Psalm 135:15-18 / Proverbs 30:4-9 / Zephaniah 1 / James 5:1-6 / Matthew 5:3 / Matthew 6:9-13 / Matthew 6:19-21 / Mark 8:34-36 / Eccl. 5:10,12…
Isaac follows God’s guidance during a time of famine to the land of Gerar. But then, Isaac takes his eyes off God, creating and following his own assumptions instead, and walking a dangerous path. But, while Isaac and Rebekah dwell there among a pagan people, God works through a pagan king to accomplish God’s purposes, and correct Isaac and Rebekah.…
God appears to Isaac and affirms that His call to Abraham and His covenant with Abraham and the blessing for Abraham, is also for Isaac, and for Isaac's offspring. God affirms the continuity that the covenant is an everlasting covenant, the possession an everlasting possession, and God's relationship with His people is present every single day. To God be the glory!…
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