19
Mar

The Chosen One

Genesis 29:15-30:24 Jacob, the deceiver gets deceived.  He wanted to marry Rachel, his true love.  He worked seven years to marry her.  And then on the wedding night, Rachel is replaced with Leah.  Jacob does not love Leah.  In the end, he takes both women as his wife.  Throughout their life together, Leah is blessed […]

12
Mar

Where is God?

Genesis 27:41-45, 28:1-5, 10-22 After Jacob steals his brother Esau’s blessing he runs from him, because Esau wants to kill him.  While he is running he has a dream of a ladder, with angels going up and down it, and God speaks to him.  When he comes out of that dream, he acknowledges that God […]

19
Feb

The Promised One

Genesis 22:1-18 Isaac was the son that was promised by God who would make Abraham’s descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky.  Then God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.  A sacrifice of obedience.  Abraham was going to do it because he believed God could raise the dead.  God intervened before Isaac […]

05
Feb

Babel On

Genesis 11:1-9 The world had one language and began to build a tower to the heavens to make a name for themselves.  God came down to earth and intervened, ultimately confusing their languages so the tower was never finished and the people spread all over the earth.  In our sinfulness, we have tendency to make […]

22
Jan

Cain or Abel?

Genesis 4:1-16, 25 – 5:5 Do you see yourself more as Cain, or more as Abel?  Abel the one who pleases God with his offering?  Or Cain, the one who gives into temptation and kills his brother?  And what is a life really worth?  We probably think of ourselves as Abel’s, when in reality we […]

15
Jan

The Fall

Genesis 3:1-24 Adam and Eve had the perfect life, the perfect relationship, the perfect world.  And one little bite of the forbidden fruit changed everything. Sin enters the world.  And along with sin, punishment.  But where there is punishment, there is also promise.  The promise of the Savior who would come and set the world […]