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Burnout
Jewelers wisely display diamonds against black velvet, knowing the dark background highlights the beauty of the gems. Such is this chapter—the sad, sordid story of Jud...
The Greater Joseph: Jesus
Joseph is a wonderful picture of Jesus. In the story of Joseph, we find: Insights about Jesus, Prophecies that point to Jesus, Understandings concerning the nature of ...
A Good Struggle
From what we have seen in the last few chapters, this was not a collection of amazingly spiritual men. This was actually a severely dysfunctional family. God will use ...
The Dichotomy Of New Life
It is good Jacob came to the Promised Land, and he settled there. But he came short of full obedience, because it seems God directed him to return to Bethel.” This lac...
With God
God gave Jacob a new name, and a limp. Jacob would remember his being conquered by God with every step he took for the rest of his life. This was a small price to pay ...
Out On Your Own
God blessed Jacob, but it was not because Jacob was especially good. He was absolutely in process, just as we are. It was because of the promises God made to Jacob and...
Jacob's Ladder
The God of Bethel is a God who does concern himself with the things of earth, not a God who shuts himself up in heaven, but God who hath a ladder fixed between heaven ...
Broken Family
In this tragic story, everyone lost. Each of the main characters – Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob – schemed and maneuvered in human wisdom and energy, rejecting God’s...
A Man Of Wells
Isaac walked in the same paths of his father Abraham; with similar highs and the lows. Altars and tents marked Abraham’s life, demonstrating a life of worship and trus...
More Than A Marriage
This chapter goes beyond history into theology. It gives us a picture of the Heavenly Father getting a bride for His Son. The church is compared to a bride; and during...
Dying Faithful
Abraham passed from the scene, being one of the most important men of the Bible. By many measures his life was not perfect, but he was a man of faith, who had a real r...
God's Call of Abram
In Genesis 12 we see God call Abram to crazy faith as he leaves everything familiar and safe to depend on God's promises. This is the same faith and call that God call...
The Obedience of Faith
As the old hymn reminds us: “Trust and obey, for there's no other way; To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.” Rebellion carries with it consequences, but God’s ...
One Family Under God
The tenth chapter of Genesis… stands absolutely alone in ancient literature, without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find the closest approach to a ...
Walking In Love
How do we address sin in others life? Many times the way we address or point it out cause shame and guilt, but love covers all sin. If we choose to walk in love it wil...
Promises of God
Just as God made a covenant with Noah and the sign of the rainbow…we have a covenant with Jesus Christ by His blood. Have you entered into a covenant with Jesus, by Hi...
Leaving It All Behind
God told Noah when to go into the ark, but he did not tell him when he should come out again. The Lord told Noah when to go in, for it was necessary for him to know th...
The Ark and the Cross
The promise of the cross is that my old life is dead and gone, I have new life through the Spirit of Christ living in me, by grace through faith, because of His love a...
A Blameless Life
Just as God provided a way for Noah and his family to be saved in the ark, He also has provided a way for us to be saved through Jesus Christ. And we can walk just as ...
The Life of an Under-Rower
Paul modeled, and we should adopt, the attitude of an under-rower.
The Rest and Comfort of Jesus
Man is appointed mortal sorrowful, the blessed God shall come down, teaching, his death shall bring the despairing rest and comfort.
Room At The Table | "Building A Legacy" Campaign Launch
In Luke 14, the parable of the banquet: the heart of the Father is that the banquet would be FULL! We are merely reflecting the heart of the Father to our community
Walking in the Will of God
Pastor Cliff explains walking in the will of god by prayer, purity, and praise.
The Questions God Asks
God dealt with Cain in terms of loving confrontation instead of automatic affirmation. God made it clear that Cain would be accepted if he did well. Of course, God kne...