The final week of the Genesis series looks at the story of Jacob, beginning around Genesis 32 as he parts from Laban and prepares to face Esau, recapping how the patriarchs reveal a God caught up in the particular details of ordinary lives.

Continuing the Genesis series, this message examines the often-overlooked life of Isaac, beginning around Genesis 22-23, and reflects on Abraham's defining willingness to receive God's gifts rather than manufacture his own future.

Continuing the Genesis series, this message takes up the difficult story of Abraham being asked to sacrifice Isaac, framed by a personal account of a coworker who stumbled over how God could test Abraham that way, and traces Abraham's journey from Haran.

Continuing the Genesis series, this message turns to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 (starting from chapter 9 after the flood), urging that these primordial stories be read as more than children's fables and exploring what they reveal about God.

Continuing the Genesis series, this message moves into Genesis 2-3 and the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, beginning with the unwatered, virgin ground before God forms man to work it.

Beginning a series through Genesis, this message looks at the creation account in Genesis 1, with extended background on how Moses recorded the Torah, the transmission of the Hebrew text, and God's presence associated with light.

A New Year's Day message on 1 Peter 1, personally recalling the preacher's late father, focusing on being born again to a living hope through the resurrection and how trials test and refine faith amid the complexities of life.

A Christmas Eve reading of the nativity in Luke 2, noting how Luke roots the birth of Jesus in real history under Caesar Augustus and Quirinius, with God breaking into the midst of politics, taxes, and ordinary life through lowly Mary and Joseph.

The Advent gospel-openings series concludes with Luke 1, the most detailed nativity account, beginning with Luke's purpose in writing an orderly account and the angel Gabriel's announcement to Zechariah of John the Baptist's birth.