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EPISODE · Feb 1, 2026 · 26 MIN

Shift Happens Week 4

from The Gathering · host Rev. Matt Miofsky

Today we are wrapping up our series Shift Happens: When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned. We are talking about how to move through seasons when our life takes a left turn, goes off track, or isn’t working out as we expected. Each week we are looking at a different reason why by reading the stories of people in scripture who had their own plans fail for different reasons. As we read their stories we are learning strategies for how God can lead us through those same circumstances in our own life.Today I want to end by talking about yet another reason that life doesn’t go as planned – because sometimes the world is an unfair place. This is true is large scale nation, political and historical ways. Injustice is part of our fallen world, as we've seen on the news this past week in Minneapolis. On a personal level, unfair things happen all the time; processes don’t always work as they should, people betray us, systems disadvantage us. To try to understand how we navigate these periods, I want to read the OT story of Joseph.

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Today we are wrapping up our series Shift Happens: When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned. We are talking about how to move through seasons when our life takes a left turn, goes off track, or isn’t working out as we expected. Each week we are looking at a different reason why by reading the stories of people in scripture who had their own plans fail for different reasons. As we read their stories we are learning strategies for how God can lead us through those same circumstances in our own life.Today I want to end by talking about yet another reason that life doesn’t go as planned – because sometimes the world is an unfair place. This is true is large scale nation, political and historical ways. Injustice is part of our fallen world, as we've seen on the news this past week in Minneapolis. On a personal level, unfair things happen all the time; processes don’t always work as they should, people betray us, systems disadvantage us. To try to understand how we navigate these periods, I want to read the OT story of Joseph.

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