Pastor Ryan takes us back to one of the most important messages for the church in all of scripture, and reminds us of who we are called to be, together, as Image Bearers of God.

We are all Jacob, and we have one final thing to learn as we look at the end of Jacob's life. God had blessed him indeed, but had yet to make him a blessing. Pastor Ryan unpacks how God put him in a place to fulfill the covenant.

Digesting the huge moment of God wrestling with Jacob causes us to really consider what God wants to wrestle with in us! Join Pastor Ryan as he mines this famous passage in Genesis 32, the turning point in the life of Jacob. 

Pastor Randy Young joins us to talk about the moment that changed everything for Jacob - the wrestling match with God.

In our last Sunday message we unpacked a key turning point for Jacob, and not exactly a comfortable one! The actions of his brother Esau are a shocking example of the Grace and Mercy of God, and stand in stark contrast to so many of Jacob's actions. In this episode of the Ladder Sessions, we're taking a look at this story and our own and asking the question - "Who is the hero here?"

Just when Jacob has escaped the clutches of Uncle Laban, Jacob goes out of the frying pan and into the fire, with Esau, the jilted older brother, coming straight for him. Pastor Ryan unpacks for us how, when God gets involved, this moment of reckoning turns into an unprecedented reconciliation.

The thing about Jacob's Story is that you can catch glimpses of it throughout the Word of God. Sometimes it is just the pattern of the people that came from Jacob, or the heritage that the Lord sustains for them, but sometimes it is more blatant than that. Pastor Ryan looks at the echo of Jacob that comes straight from the mouth of the Savior himself, in perhaps the most famous story he ever told. 

What happens when the trickster gets a taste of his own medicine? Pastor CJ unpacks a moment from the life of Jacob he would never forget!

Things are beginning to change in our study of Jacob. We've gotten a real dose of his nature over the first couple of moments we see with him in the Word of God, but now the hero of the story arrives on the scene. Pastor Ryan examines the drive within all of us for the next thing, the next frontier to explore or achieve, and the way God interacts with us... how He wants to give us more than we can imagine.