How do I live when there’s a gap between the promise of God and its fulfillment? How do we respond when our experience doesn’t sync up with God’s promises? The big idea in Genesis 15-16 is this: When you’re living in the gap between the promise of God and it’s fulfillment, don’t take a short-cut […]

God’s promise is certain. Abram’s faith is fickle. But by God’s grace his faith is growing. Scripture: Genesis 13-14

Despite the unfolding of God’s promises as seen in Noah and now in Abraham, there’s a nagging question… what’s the deal with human nature?!? Sin is still present. Mankind has as Thomas Schreiner said “a depth of corruption that still inhabits the heart.” The world is spiraling and then what happens? God intervenes. The account […]

When you think of the word “judgment” does grace, mercy, or love come to your mind? Probably not! But in Genesis 11 God shows His grace to sinners by preventing them from doing what their heart desires. If God didn’t care for us He’d let us do whatever we want, but God is a good […]

The world is quickly unraveling as sin reaches its tentacles into every nook/cranny of civilization. Chapter 4 Cain, in hot fury, murders his brother. Chapter 5 Lamech shows himself to be an arrogant and ungodly individual and sin seems to continually have the upper-hand. And then in the latter part of Chapter 5, you see […]

God hasn’t forgotten you. You don’t fight alone. You don’t go out into this crazy world alone. You will never be alone (a lie from the enemy). No matter how desperate and alone you feel, no matter how much opposition you face, no matter how precarious your circumstances become, no matter the difficulty and physical […]

In Genesis 3, we see the first man/woman rebel against God; the temptation to be like God, knowing good and evil, was too much to resist. They wrongly believe God was withholding something from them. Genesis 4 describes what happens in the immediate generations. Scripture: Genesis 4

The big idea from this text is that the blessing of paradise was cursed through sin, but God promised to restore it to blessing again. Genesis 1-2 tells us that God created the world and it was very good. Creation was the very blessing of God. But our day-to-day experience seems so different. What’s happened […]

Big idea → The King of the universe created the world with His powerful word. There are only two world views → 1) Naturalism and 2) Theism. Dr. John Lennox of Oxford said, “never was there a more profound challenge to the naturalistic worldview than the words, ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and […]

“No matter how many experts we consult or how much research we do, the ultimate questions of life remain unanswerable unless God speaks. And God has spoken to us, in very plain language. Surprisingly and thankfully, this message is good news for bad people like us. Our responsibility is to listen and do so patiently. […]