What happens when everyone ignores the Lord and does what is wrong? Genesis 34 tells us. Yet, through it all, the Lord of the covenant of grace remains faithful to His promises and works for His glory and the good of His people.

Genesis 33 depicts Jacob - the elect of God - seeking to make peace with his brother Esau because the Lord showed favor on him and forgave all his sins.

This is a story of how God uses the things we struggle with most to bring us to the point that we will cling to Christ alone and never let Him go. (There was a problem with the first download.  It was only 8 minutes long.  This is the full sermon is 32 minutes long).

This is a story of how God uses the things we struggle with most to bring us to the point that we will cling to Christ alone and never let Him go.  (The original download was only 8 minutes long.  The updated version is the full sermon and is 32 minutes long.)

Jacob turns a corner as far as his character is concerned.  But he is still a work in progress.

There is nothing our God cannot do and nothing He can't overcome.

This is a love story.  But it’s not so much the love story of Jacob and Rachel as it is the love story of God and His people.  This love story of Jacob and Rachel simply points us to the love story of Christ, the Better Jacob, and His Church.

God affirms His promises and thus His presence and covenant faithfulness with Jacob like He did with his father and grandfather before him.

Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob were all equally at fault, but God worked all things according to His will and for His purposes. (A sermon given by Associate Pastor Aaron Raines)

It’s a true story about a man who was his father's son and made some similar choices, but who, like his father, was also graciously preserved and blessed by their covenant-making, covenant-keeping God.