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Last week we witnessed the death of Abraham, and the generations that came from his sons born to him by his concubines. We also saw the children of Isaac born, Esau and Jacob. 1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to…

God Visible and Invisible At the close of last week I noted that the “Word of YHWH” as a visible appearance of God as a man. This could lead to several questions. One of those was how a first-century Jew would have parsed the idea of Jesus being the “Word made flesh.” True, there was Old Testament precedent…

As I have read through scripture, studied it, discussed it with others, and heard people share their thoughts concerning the things God has recorded for us in His Word i have noticed a tendency… People (myself included) tend to find the faults in those we study . Somehow this is common We can find fault…

Exodus 20:24

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

Genesis 1:1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Introduction The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings, it describes where we came from, it declares what is wrong with us, it discloses where we are going It lays the foundations of human institutions Now unlike any other time…

ME: There’s a cultural phenomenon going on in our world today called “cancel culture”. What it says is that if you express views that are contrary to those acceptable by a particular group - whether that be a group of friends, a business, a media channel, a government official, you can be locked out…

We are back in our study of the book of Genesis today. In our series THE PROMISE, we come to Genesis chapter 19 today. If you have read the text or are familiar with the story, you can probably understand why I’m always tempted to focus on the sin of the outsiders in texts like this. They are so obvious…

That may Some things to notice: The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Most of us read this verse and we probably don’t think much about what we read. But if you were a Jew, the word LORD would spark all sorts…

The waiting game What about me? There is a danger in reading a text like we have today. Abram and Sarai were pagan’s. Spent years going against God’s will. Yet God blesses them The temptation when we look at someone like Abram is “What about me? ” I come to church, I try to do the right things… i”m not…

Pentateuch The story of how God restored mankind, lovingly and graciously redeeming them out of sin’s slavery and raising up a people though whom He would touch the whole world. Pentateuch is crucial to the rest of the Old Testament and the whole Bible Pentateuch means “5 Books”. It is the Book of the…

Michelle and I have been watching a series on Amazon Prime called Poldark… it’s based on a series of books written back in the 1940’s about a family in London around the late 1700s. Every episode is full of conflict but back then they handled conflict very differently than we do today. It’s hard to tell…

If you’re like me, you probably rush through the “begats” or the lineages of the Bible, but they become important and really demonstrate how the Bible weaves together. We began with Adam. Adam had Cain, and then Abel. We saw that Cain killed Abel, and the Adam and Eve had another son they named Seth.…

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord : I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also…

Deal with the subtle deceptions that rob you and your family of God’s fulness of His blessings.

Isaac was a man who pursued peace, as Christians do we?

Genesis 25:19-28:9 Malachi 1:1-2:7 Review In our last Halftarah portion we spoke about Abraham and David getting old זָקֵן Grow Old = ‎ ( zā·qēn ) Strongs 2204 Abraham makes Isaac his heir and David Salomon, despite the attempts of Adoniyahu to take over Now it’s time to speak about and to the generations…

How should Christians think about these things. Introduction If you had told me thirty years ago that the issue of my day as a 45 year old man would be that we as a collective culture can't define what a man or a woman is, I would not have believed you. If you had told me that we would have major medical…

Introduction Blue-y Illustration: I’ll do this and then you do that... Setting for Haggai… Rebuilding the Temple after exile. Read Haggai 2:20-23 20 The word of the Lord came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month: 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake…

Intro; How many here have a written will? Why do you have a written will? It protects your future and the future of your loved ones. It controls the the fact that you determine what happens to your possessions, instead of the state. A will says, “I’m not going to be here forever, and I want to put certain…

Hebrews 12:3-13:25 Good morning church! We are going to try to move a bit more rapidly through our remaining section of Hebrews. But before we do, we have some important business to take care of. We have a baby dedication this morning. This is one of my absolute favorite things to do as your pastor,…

Water Rights What's in a name Emulation or Envy Unfaithfulness to the Abrahamic Covenant

Genesis 19:27-38 27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord . 28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. 29 So when God destroyed the…

Our scriptures begin with the book of Genesis, this book opens with a statement… BEFORE TIME “ In the beginning GOD... ” (outside of time) John 1:1-3 declares some things about this God who is communicating with us! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was…

In January of 2020, I started preaching through Genesis. My plan was to break it up and preach Genesis in a few different chunks— Genesis 1-11 , 12-25 , 26-50 . So that’s what I started to do. I preached Genesis 1-11 during January, February, and March of 2020. And, right as I was preaching the last…