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Announcements: Tonight Youth Wednesday Night - Children Building Project Council - Meet after service This month - we are looking at Common Ailments. We know the church is to behave as a hospital for sinners - this is a medical facility, a place where people come to receive care. The members of the church…

All In God’s Plan Hopelessness, darkness, failure, opposition. Sometimes it seems the whole world is against us. What hope, and what help do we have against it all? I want to tell you, the answer is here in the last pages of the book of Genesis. 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have…

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…

Genesis 42:1-46:34 ; 50:15-21 Main theme of passage: God used the evil actions of the brothers and the attachment of an old man to establish his people and secure their future prosperity Main Preaching Theme: How to cope when the madness of life has a purpose we cannot fathom. Main Preaching Intention:…

How many of you remember the life of Joseph? The ups and downs. The highs and lows. The love and hatred. Joseph was a man of character. Joseph had a strong faith. One thing has been confirmed and reaffirmed in my heart and mind, and that is the truth that God is behind every event that occurs in our…

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…

Genesis 47:29-30 Genesis 50:1-3 , 7-10 Genesis 50:15 , 18-26 Jacob desired to be buried in Canaan We talked last week about how God promised Jacob that He would bring him out of Egypt. Genesis 46:4 “I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close…

Introduction Transition Illumination The Death of Jacob, 49:29-33 29 Then he charged them and said to them: “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the…

(S1) SERIES—When God Intervenes—2 words that change everything — No matter what your going through, how you feel about your self, your life, or your circumstances...There is always a BUT God Last week—Jacob— BUT GOD has seen my hardship —Undeserving Today—One who is most deserving... SHEPHERD: confident,…

Last week we continued through the final section in Genesis, focusing on the final days of Israel with his family. Joseph introduced his family to Pharaoh, who allowed them to live in Goshen. Israel blessed Pharaoh and lived there for 17 years, living to be 147 years old. Before he died, he blessed each…

Make Forgiveness Your Aim Who Killed Sara? is a television series about a young man who went to prison for a crime he didn’t commit — murdering his sister Sara — with the promise from a very powerful and connected man that he’d only serve two-months. In exchange for his corporation he and mother would…

At the end of Genesis we see an example of the vision Joseph embraces which kept his faith rooted in God; it is a vision which enables our faith today to remain rooted in God as well.

This Torah Portion: Gen 44:18 - 47:27 Introduction In the previous Torah portions we talked about how Jacob finally settled and had children - among who Joseph became the first born of promise We heard how Joseph had a first dream -regarding ruling over his brothers and that seem to have made him overconfident…

Text: 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.…

The book of Genesis opens with the words… “ In the beginning God ” and we see the closing verses read Genesis 50:14-26 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead,…

Introduction But Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food. But if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see…

What are you grateful for? Take a moment and start to list your blessings. Those of you online chat them in so we can share together this morning. Being thankful is hard. Let me state this at the beginning. Respect those who do the ministry. This is not just about respecting leaders, though we must,…

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…

How do we handle pain, suffering and the evil around us? This is the question we have been exploring the past couple weeks. I am hoping to wrap up by the beginning of November our series on suffering. Joseph experienced a lot of pain and suffering. Some of this was because of his choices and many times…

Building a People of God with Unusual Characters I have been using the past several weeks to show how God doesn’t always, or even often, use the kinds of people that we expect to become his all-stars in the story of the people of God. Each one is unique. Each one has some interesting character flaws…

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…

We are going to look at Gen 50:15-21 in a few minutes where Joseph is dealing with his brothers after they sold him as a slave to the traders who then sold him to slavery in Egypt. To get to Gen 50 and the passage for tonight, we travel through several events in Joseph’s life. Joseph tells his brothers…

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…