Think for a moment to a time you’ve been betrayed, yes, recall the emotion, the heart felt sorrow and crippling sadness. Now multiply that by 20. This is the pain felt by Jesus when He was betrayed, it was the pain felt by David when he was betrayed, and it’s certainly the pain felt by…
A wrestling match with God. It happened with Jacob, the son of Isaac. A wrestling match in which God tells Jacob to let him go and Jacob says he won’t until God blesses him. How did Jacob get hold of God that way and how can we get hold of God that way too? Join…
‘Faith’ is a word that is often bandied about. But what does it mean to have Christian faith? What does it mean to truly believe God? Today’s story from Genesis 22 may be the supreme example of faith in the Old Testament. In Abraham’s harrowing experience, we catch a breathtaking vision of what faith is,…
What comes to mind when you think of a covenant? Today we continue our deep dive into Genesis and come to the moment God makes a covenant with Abraham. It is thrilling! That God would make a covenant with a human! But it only gets better as Jesus would fullfill that covenant by shedding his…
If it came right down to it, do you really trust God? Do you really believe He can deliver you out of the battle you’re in right now? As we move into Genesis 12, we come to a man who trusted God to the point he took his entire family to a new place he…
With the flood, God had cut back the growing power of sin that had started in the Garden of Eden. The world, through Noah and his family, is given a new start. But something is wrong! In just a few generations sin leads humanity to glorify themselves over God by building a tower. Stay tuned…
Why is the world so messed up? Why is life so hard and frustrating? Why is there so much suffering and heartache? And most importantly, what is the remedy? What is the solution? To answer these questions, we need an accurate description of the problem and an effective prescription to solve it. We find both…
Okay, the sermon title is a bit of a downer, but it points to a deeper profound truth I won’t give away until the sermon! Truth is, Genesis is not just the beginning of creation, Genesis is also the beginning of marriage. Genesis 2 takes us to the very first marriage, a marriage tied to…
Do you know where your birth certificate is? We really have two of them. You have one given from the state in which you were physically birthed, but today I want to challenge you to see Genesis one as your most important birth certificate! You were born as a son or daughter of God in…
The Book of Genesis is the book of origins. It gives the account of the creation of the universe and reveals foundational truths about God and how He relates to the world He created. The Lord Jesus said the essence of eternal life is to know the one, true God (John 17:3). Who is this…