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Last week, we talked about the Promise and the Process . The Promise, Process, Perfection, Procession, Provision, and the Peace … the 6 P’s explain God’s intentions towards us. The (Promise) God’s Promise to you ; His work in our lives including suffering ( Process ); and what that work is producing…

God’s timing! This year seemed to move slow. We prayed, we pursued, we studied, and in the end God gave us a harvest. The months of praying and waiting seemed long. Our finances were lean. For much of 2023, we weren’t hitting our budget . . . but their was enough. We lost dear loved ones. This year we…

Genesis 40 The Cover-up Visions Cup-bearer Baker Loss of Memory

The Gospel According to Genesis Today, we will deal with a few passages from the book of Genesis that teach us about the prophetic text concerning our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As we approach the days to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must learn about the prophetic texts that teach…

The Forgotten Son Eye doctor switching between lenses. Is this clear or this one? 1 or 2? At times we see clearly, others it’s all out of focus. What is our purpose? Are we on the right path? Are we making any difference in the world? 36-40 The lens of scripture flips back and forth between clear, and…

Today we are wrapping up this six part study of the Good News called, “Life in 6 Words.” We get these six words by using the word “Gospel” as an acrostic. As a way of review, let’s walk through these six words one final time… G - God created us to be with Him. ( Genesis 1-2 ) O - Our sins separate us…

We pick up this week with Jospeh in prison, forgotten by the two men who were his chance to get released. The Pharoah’s cupbearer and baker, two men who had dreams that Joseph interpreted. And before we move onto the next episode in Joseph’s life let’s take a little time to see how big a deal it was…

Last week we saw what life was like for Joseph in slavery. He had great success because of God and was blessed, but was pursued by his master’s wife. When he rejected her advances, she accused him of coming after her and Joseph was thrown into prison. In spite of this, God continued to show him favor…

And He Settled Torah: Gen. 37:1-40:23 Haftarah: Amos 2.6-3.8 Gospel: Matt 1.18-25 INTRODUCTION: After the promise of the seed of the woman The Book of Genesis is about the FIRSTBORN Is this the one who was promised? Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel—he was indeed the firstborn, but because…

Welcome Good morning once again everyone, today we are pushing farther into our study on the life of Joseph. Joseph has had a bit of a rough patch in his life, which we have seen the last two weeks. First he is sold into slavery by his brothers, and then he is falsely accused of rape which causes him…

The HURTING... A spouse going through a difficult time, wrongful words of hurt pain in the heart A son or daughter who is feeling the pain of a parent who continues to tear down, say things that hurt One who has suffered loss of a loved one, still hurting yet those around you go on and treat you as though…

Redeeming Son If you been a Christian for any amount of Time you know that sometimes things don’t work out the way you want them to, but often they work out better b/c of God’s hand in and on your life. I’m not sure how many of you know the story of how God called me to pastor you here, but it’s a story…

Building a People of God with Unusual Characters Well, last week you heard me begin the story of Jacob’s 11th son, Joseph. As I said, Joseph’s story takes most of the last 12 chapters of Genesis—about 1/4 of the book. And we find out how God takes this first son of Jacob and his beloved Rachel, who is…

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…

1 Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 3 and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison…

What does a king require?

Welcome back to our third week in “The Story.” To this point in the narrative, we have looked at God’s plan of Creation Mankind’s choice to sin in the Garden How sin then passed from generation to generation Cain killing Abel All of creation sinned continually God’s choice to flood the earth and preserve…

The Lord Stood with Me Primary Scripture Reading: 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles…