Kindred Church

We celebrate the end of our Genesis study tonight and the things God taught us over these 14 weeks. We’ll get to hear from some of you as we reflect on all we’re taking away from Genesis as a community.

This message is from our Wednesday night service on November 17, 2021. 

We finish our trek through Genesis tonight with the resolution of the Joseph narrative as he confronts the very people who harmed him - his brothers. We will explore Joseph's resolve to lean into the good God had worked out of the evil his brothers intended for him in their sin. We also take notice of an unlikely hero in the story: Judah, who, like Joseph, models an important part of the Good News of Jesus centuries before he arrives. 

This message is from our Wednesday night service on November 10th, 2021. 

Joseph’s story continues after being sold into slavery by his brothers, we find him now in Egypt. But first, a tale of his older brother Judah where we discover Joseph’s character foil. What does character look like in crisis? What does it look like day-to-day? God was with Joseph through every trial and Joseph gave his all to honor him even when things turned towards the worst. We will look at how we carry ourselves, what we “clothe” ourselves in, and how we can live like Joseph in our own contexts.

This message is from our Wednesday night service on November 3rd, 2021. 

Tonight we continue our study of Genesis with the story of Joseph. We’ll explore how Jacob’s favoritism of his son Joseph causes intense jealousy amongst his brothers leading to suffering and destruction. Thankfully, we are given the antidote to the poison of jealousy: the peace that comes with knowing who You are in Christ.

This message is from our Wednesday night service on October 27, 2021.

Jacob’s story continues this week with a mysterious encounter with God, marking him for life. We’ll explore what this passage communicates about God’s expectations of his people, the permission he gives us to struggle, and how his grace always leaves us different than he found us.

This message is from our Wednesday night service on October 20th, 2021.

As we continue to move through the book of Genesis, tonight’s chapters are all about family…the dysfunction and deception and sibling rivalry of one particular family - Isaac’s family. It’s the the tale of twin brothers who were far from perfect as they struggled with expectation and comparison, and a story of God bringing hope and blessing to the world through a messy family fraught with betrayal and distrust and fractured relationships. 

This message is from our Wednesday night service on October 13th, 2021.

Abraham and Sarah finally have a son after waiting their entire lives. Decisions from the past and present now come into focus as Abraham’s faith and resolve meet their ultimate test: does he love anything more than God? What was God up to, and what is the story of Abraham and Isaac supposed to teach us in our modern world as followers of Jesus?

This message is from our Wednesday night service on October 6th, 2021. 

Our Genesis study continues with the famous story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  It's a cautionary tale about the consequences for a city that abused its power and responded to the outsider with cruelty and violence. It reveals a lot about the nature of God and what he desires for his people, pointing us to the ultimate hope and grace we have in Jesus.  

This message is from our Wednesday night service on September 29th, 2021. 

Tonight’s message is all about waiting, and waiting is always the worst part. As we follow the lives of Abram and Sarai, we discover how waiting can lead to wreckage and the faithful response of God to his people in their desperation.

This message is from our Wednesday night service on September 22nd, 2021.

As we follow Abram’s journey through Genesis 12 & 13, we start to we ask how does he keep on believing God as more and more time passes…as reality and doubt and his circumstances begin to settle in, how does he remember God? The question for us becomes, how do we remember God in the in between places and in seasons of waiting?

This is from our Wednesday night service on September 15th, 2021.