To live above with those we love,
Well, that will be glory.
To live below with those we know,
Well, that’s another story.

Family feuds. I would like to chat with you a few moments about that today. According to a survey done by Randy Carlson about eight years ago, 91% of American adults long to improve their relationships with their adult siblings. The pains of family life continue to haunt us, often for an entire lifetime.

One of the most compelling stories of the Bible is the struggle between two brothers by the names of Esau and Jacob. These sons of Isaac start jostling each other in their mother’s womb and continue to feud and fight for most of their lives. Can we gain from this Genesis story some insight for our relational lives? Perhaps we can, and that is what I pose to do today.…