In this sermon we see God tell Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham obeyed and God provided a substitute. 

This is how God works. He has provided a substitute. Everything in this story calls us to look forward to the offering of God's one and only Son Jesus Christ as a substitutionary sacrifice that would atone for the sin of the world.

In this teaching from Gen. 21:22-34 we see Abraham and Abimelech negotiate an agreement, or a covenant where they are both working to make sure that they can live a good life where God has placed them.

This story challenges us by showing us the importance of worship and covenants in daily life. Both are necessary for the man or woman who wants to know God and make Him known.

In this passage Ishmael mocks Isaac and then Ishmael and his mother are cast out of Abraham's home because of it. Sarah, Isaac's mother, and Hagar, Ishmael's mother, represent two different covenants, or two different ways to know God.

This teaching is from Gen. 21:8-21 and Gal 4:21-31.

In Gen. 21:1-7 Sarah conceives and gives birth to Isaac. He is the one that God promised to Abraham and Sarah. 

How do we live in between the promise and the fulfillment of that promise?

What are we currently waiting for and how do we wait for it?

In this story from Genesis 20 we see Abraham and Sarah tell a bold and significant lie because of some assumptions that they made.

How do we avoid this error? What did God do about it? 

This is our third week in Gen. 19. In this passage God rains fire and sulfur down on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Why would God do such a thing? In this teaching we see how and why God destroys and judges nations and individuals. We learn what God is accomplishing when He destroys. We learn what people do that causes God to destroy them and why it is a good thing that God is a Judge.

God told Lot to leave Sodom. Lot wasn’t doing it fast enough so God was merciful to him. He grabbed Lot’s hand and yanked him out of the city before it was destroyed.

What does this have to do with us? How does God give His mercy out? How do people receive it? How should people respond to God’s mercy? All these questions and more are answered as we continue to explore Genesis 19.

This story may just be one of the most awkward and uncomfortable passages in all of the Bible, yet it is full of great truths that teach us much about God, ourselves and the world that we live in.

In this story we will see that God knows how to rescue His people at just the right time.