In this week’s passage, God changes Abram’s name to Abraham and makes His covenant with Abraham.

In this week’s sermon through Genesis 16, we will look at the events surrounding Sarai and her maidservant Hagar.

In this week’s sermon through Genesis 15:7-21, we will look at the covenant God made with Abram.

After Abram witnessed God’s hand of protection in battle, the Lord comes to Abram in a vision to reassure him of promises made. Abram, having faith in God, feels some distress: He believes in God’s promises, and yet the circumstances before him ran antithetical to what God had said would take place. God provides Abram a sign of assurance, and Abram continues in his pilgrim faith. And it is this very faith in the promise-making God Who would bless all nations through his Offspring, namely Jesus, that is reckoned as righteousness to Abram.

The Battle of the Valley of Siddim has been won and the king seizes the people and the goods, including Abram’s nephew Lot and his family. This causes Abram to gather his men to rescue Lot and and run off the conquerors. Abram is blessed by the high priest Melchizedek, and takes nothing from the King of Sodom for the rescue other than food which had been eaten.

In this week’s sermon, Forks in the Road, we see the beginnings of strife between Abram’s and Lot’s herdsmen. To prevent strife between them, Abram tells Lot to separate and gives him first choice of land. Lot chooses the well-watered Jordan Valley and settled in the area of Sodom; Abram settles in Canaan. Then the Lord reiterates his promise to Abram, who moves his tent and makes another altar to the Lord.

This Sunday, we’ll look at Genesis 12:10-13:4 where Abram essentially makes a mess of things. Famine in the land drove Abram and Sarai to Egypt where her beauty captures the eye of Pharaoh, who takes her for his wife. Determined to lie that Sarai is his sister to preserve his own life, Abram fails to trust in God’s promises. When plagues befall the people, Pharaoh rebukes Abram for his lie and sends him and Sarai away where later, Abram calls upon the Lord.

This week, we begin a new series in the Life of Abraham. God called the man Abram to be a great nation, to leave behind everything and to go where he called him to go. We will look at God’s promises to Abraham and Abrahams’s responses to God’s call.

This week we will conclude the two-part series as we look at Acts 6:1-7 and consider the roles and responsibilities of leaders in the church. We will also consider what is the mission of the church and why prayer is preaching are so critical to the mission.

This week we begin a two-part series on Biblical leadership called Workers for Your Joy. In the first sermon, we will look at 1 Peter 5 as we consider the qualifications of leaders in the church and what their responsibilities are in relation to the church and to the Chief Shepherd.