Renaissance Church PGH - Sermons

Outline:

1) Comparison that leads to Conflict

2) Comparison that leads to Compromise

3) Comparison that leads to Conception

Main Point: What do we do when we see other people living the lives we want?

Resources: Kidner, Greidanus, Sailhamer, Walton | Books: How to Read Genesis, by Longman; Understanding Genesis, Sarna; | Studies: Genesis, by The Bible Project

Outline: 

1) The Deceiver is Deceived

2) The Unwanted is Wanted

Main Point: God wants the people nobody else wants

Main Application: You are seen and wanted

Outline:

1) God pursues scoundrels on His own initiative.

2) God connects heaven and earth His own way. 

3) God secures the blessing with His own work.

4) God brings transformation for His own glory. 

Main Point: At the place where heaven and earth meet, God doubles down on grace.

Resources: Preaching Christ from Genesis by Sidney Griedanus; Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace: The Gospel in the Lives of Isaac and Jacob by Ian Duguid; Commentaries by Victor Hamilton, Derek Kidner, Allen Ross

Outline:

1) The Deception of His Father

2) The Demise of Favoritism

Main Application: Be aware of generational sin, but don’t be controlled by it

Outline:

1) The Younger Over The Older

2) The Not Yet Before The Now

Main Point: Do you trade the temporary for the eternal, or do you trade the eternal for the temporary?

Main Application: Prioritize what God prioritizes (the not yet, the meek/lowly)

Outline: 

1) Promise of Land 

2) Promise of Great Nation

Main Point: Death doesn’t end God’s promises

Main Application: When we see God’s faithfulness, we respond in worship (obedience)

Outline:

1) Testing

2) Faith

3) Provision

Main Point: The movements of Abraham, the movements of Jesus, the movements of us.

Main Application: Do we know God enough to trust Him even when we don’t see where He’s going?

Main Point: God is faithful to keep his promises even despite of our failures/fears.

Outline:

1) A Faltering Faith

2) A Faithful God

Resources: Commentaries: Kidner, Hamilton

Outline:

1) What Will Happen

2) Who It Will Happen To

3) How It Will Happen

4) Why You Can Avoid It

Main Point: Will you follow God’s way or your own way for your future?

Outline:

1) The ways that create problems

2) The way of the Promise

Resources: Commentaries: D. Kidner, T Longman III, N. Sarna, C. Collins, J Sailhamer, J. Walton; Study: Book of Genesis, T. Mackie; Books: “Between Noon and Three: A Parable of Romance, Law and the Outrage of Grace” by R. Farrar Capon