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Episode 24: Peniel: The Night at the River - Genesis 32
Episode 24 –Peniel: The Night at the River
Genesis 32 (and Genesis 33:1–11)
The Wound, the New Name, and the God Who Lets Himself Be Held
In this episode…. Jacob is going home – and his brother is coming to meet him with four hundred men.
He prays the first real prayer of his life, and then immediatelystarts scheming anyway.
And that night, at a river called the Jabbok, he sends everything he owns across the water and Genesis records five words that carry the weight of a whole life: “And Jacob was left alone.”
Out of the darkness a man takes hold of him, and they wrestleuntil dawn.
We ask who…
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