false 463519 <![CDATA[God The Ingenious Alchemist: Transforming Tragedy Into Blessing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174966607m/463519.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174966607s/463519.jpg The Bible is often held up as a source of family values, but it is also full of families who falter and do so generation after generation. Few families have visited as much evil on each other as Abraham's descendants in Genesis. Using these stories, Claypool explores how God turns the "lead" of evil-like Jacob's theft of Esau's birthright, and Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery in Egypt-into the "gold" of abundant blessing, as alchemists were said to do in the past. God is always more interested in our future, according to Claypool, than in our pasts.

In this book, as in his other books, Claypool explores the biblical texts carefully, and with a pastoral eye for the characters from Genesis and his contemporary readers. This book that offers challenge and comfort to people who feel that their sins may be beyond God's concern and their lives beyond redemption.

]]> 463519 1 451946 1 4 2005 God The Ingenious Alchemist: Transforming Tragedy Into Blessing 0 0 1 0 43670 4.27 11 5 48208772 88025 463519 0819221805 9780819221803 0 <![CDATA[God The Ingenious Alchemist: Transforming Tragedy Into Blessing]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174966607m/463519.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174966607s/463519.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463519.God_The_Ingenious_Alchemist_Transforming_Tragedy_Into_Blessing 0.0 0 The Bible is often held up as a source of family values, but it is also full of families who falter and do so generation after generation. Few families have visited as much evil on each other as Abraham's descendants in Genesis. Using these stories, Claypool explores how God turns the "lead" of evil-like Jacob's theft of Esau's birthright, and Joseph's brothers selling him into slavery in Egypt-into the "gold" of abundant blessing, as alchemists were said to do in the past. God is always more interested in our future, according to Claypool, than in our pasts.

In this book, as in his other books, Claypool explores the biblical texts carefully, and with a pastoral eye for the characters from Genesis and his contemporary readers. This book that offers challenge and comfort to people who feel that their sins may be beyond God's concern and their lives beyond redemption.

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