True faith must begin with the very first verse of the Bible. If you can believe Genesis 1:1, you won’t have any problems with the rest of the Bible. Truth begins with God. That’s why the Bible begins with this verse.
Text: Genesis 1:1In this sermon series we’re looking at the basic laws of the spiritual life that apply to all Christians everywhere. […]
Sermon Series: Seven Laws of the Spiritual LifeIf you don’t know God, you’ve missed the very reason for your own existence.
Text: Genesis 1:1; John 17:3We begin with two quotations. The first comes from British playwright Oscar Wilde who said, “I can resist anything except […]
Text: I Corinthians 10:13; Genesis 39It was a hot night when we got married. Late August in Phoenix, Arizona, is always hot but by the […]
Text: Genesis 2:18-25“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” First sentences matter. Every writer knows that the very first […]
Text: Genesis 1:1Do all things really work together for good? Consider the following: A little baby is born with no brain, only […]
Text: Genesis 50:20Have you ever seen Jesus with the eyes of faith? Behold the Son of God. Fix your eyes upon him. Gaze upon his beauty. As the song says, “Look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.” Those who look to him will never be disappointed and like Abraham of old, they will rejoice and be glad forever.
Text: Genesis 25In many ways we stand exactly where Abraham stood 4000 years ago. The people of God still die one by one. I still do funerals every year for people I know and love. Like Abraham, we too have not received the fulfillment of everything God has promised for us. And the point of Genesis 23 is still true today. We die, but the promises of God live on after us.
Text: Genesis 23Our Heavenly Father leads us along the pathway of complete trust in him. Slowly but surely we discover that the things we thought we couldn’t live without don’t matter as much as we thought they did. Even the dearest and sweetest things of life take second place to the pleasure of knowing God. In the end we discover that he has emptied our hands of everything and then filled them with himself.
Text: Genesis 22