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Question: Where is God when life is at its worst?  Answer: Right. With. Us. I know that is easier to know in our head than it is to know in our heart when life is at its absolute worst. When the deep valleys come it's easy to ask: God where are...

What does it feel like to be weak, wounded, and wrestled to the ground by God? Jacob knows, and it changed the way he walked through life. We need to know what this is like as well.     There is no prevailing without first having been weakened...

The schemer gets schemed.Jacob has been wheeling and dealing, scheming and dreaming, conniving and thriving (or so he thinks). He is about to meet his match in uncle Laban.Genesis 29 begins a series of events in which Laban and Jacob battle and scheme...

Have you ever found yourself making deals with God? "God if you... then I will..." We find Jacob trying to make a deal with God while he is on the run from family drama in Genesis 28. Even after the Lord offers him the free gift of His...

If you experienced any kind of sibling rivalry growing up, I'm willing to bet it doesn't hold a candle to Jacob and Esau. These twin boys were born to Isaac and Rebekah, and from the womb, they would war with one another.  As they grew...

The promised son has come, the promised family is growing, the promised nation is on the rise. This week we watch as God unites Isaac with his wife, Rebekah. What is especially interesting is how God does it and who He uses to find a wife for...

We hate uncertainty. Uncertainty can be disorienting, confusing, and discouraging. We long for clarity! We long for certainty!But where then, if everything is clear, easy, and certain, is faith?  Sometimes God takes us down a path where we know the...

At times believing what God has promised can be hard. What's often even harder, though, is trusting Him for when that promise will come to pass. For Abraham and Sarah, they have been waiting on a promise.And waiting... And waiting... But sure...

Ever done something you shouldn’t have done?And then ever done it again?We all know those things we should have handled differently, and then we know the feeling when we make that same mistake twice. This week we watch as Abraham repeats a mistake he...

Genesis 19 could come with a warning like "This message is rated R for violent and sexual content."There are a few chapters of the Bible that bring out the complete and utter depravity of the human condition apart from a Savior and this is...

Genesis 19 could come with a warning like "This message is rated R for violent and sexual content."There are a few chapters of the Bible that bring out the complete and utter depravity of the human condition apart from a Savior and this is...

How do we stay grounded in a world unhinged from the truth? How do we find peace when life seems unsteady? What hope awaits the faithful believer? Is there a better way to live as Christians than what has become “typical” in American Christian...

Make the choice right now.   Right now. Before 2021 even begins, make a conscious decision: I will choose joy in whatever comes. It's easy to choose joy when all is well, it's harder to choose joy when things aren't. But we can be...

Have you ever been homesick? You know what that feels like. The pit in your stomach, the weight in your chest, the longing to be back with who you know and what you know. As Christians, we live with a sense of homesickness. We want to be with...

Waiting.... waiting.... waiting....   Even just seeing the word might stress some of us out. Waiting! I don't know many people who would say they really love to wait. Think about being put on hold during a phone call. Think about the days of...

There is a saying we use when we feel the time has come for us to get something done ourselves: "I'm taking matters into my own hands." Often, we say this when someone else who was responsible isn't doing things as quickly as we...

For the fourth time God will promise Abram that his descendants will be too many to count. Four times God has been saying it without Abram seeing it. Finally, Abram basically says, "Can you prove it? How do I know this?" God delivers. In...

Genesis 14 introduces a rather mysterious yet important character throughout the Bible. His name is Melchizedek, and well, we really don't know that much about him. But he's mentioned again in Psalm 110, and then again in Hebrews 7 where he...

We took a break from our Genesis series to spend time in Romans 5 + 6. We'll get back to Genesis next week!

It's hard to leave places you know to go to places you don't know. It's even harder to leave the people you know to go to people you don't know.  And yet this week, we walk with the father of the faith as he trades the known for...

A group of people set out to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves. God wants them to scatter in faith to multiply His image. They want to stay together, comfortable, and safe. God wants them to live lives making His name famous. They...

There is something subtly dangerous that can happen with the "big stories" of the Bible. You know, those ones you'll find in every children's Bible, David and Goliath...Daniel and the lion's den...Joseph and his coat of many...

It seems like the world is getting worse by the year. More compromise. More sin. Fewer and fewer people following God. Even those who used to follow God have been falling away.  Sound familiar?  This is the world in Genesis 6. We’re now 10...

Once sin starts things get ugly. Sin unchecked gets brutal. From the story of the very first sin last week, we now see the evil escalate as the blood of a murdered man at the hands of his brother cries out before the Lord. As the people multiply on...

Genesis 3 is ugly. Humans rebel against God. That never goes well. Rebellion against God never makes life easier, better, simpler... it always makes life more painful. As we watch the first-ever sin unfold this week, we will be able to glean...

We can get out of balance so fast on the topics of work and rest. On one side, we can begin to worship work as God, instead of seeing work as worship to God. Out of a desire for more, to make a name for ourselves, or to run from other responsibilities...

The human being is unique to all other created things. Only the human was made by the very breath of God breathing life into his nostrils. Only the human being was made in the image of God. Humans (men and women) are made in a unique way with a unique...

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."  The greatest story ever told begins with these words: In the beginning... Beginnings matter.   Understanding the beginning of the world matters. Understanding how the world was...

Have you ever used the phrase “where the rubber meets the road?”It’s a fascinating idiom. It’s first credited to Firestone Tires in the 1950s, though it’s possible it was used earlier than that. It couldn’t have been too much earlier though, because...

The Prodigal Son... Many of us are familiar with the story. And oftentimes as we read or recount this story, a lot of attention is put on the younger brother. His wasteful living. His lostness. His rebellion. His reckless and wild decisions. But what...

This week we are in Luke 14:15-24. We'll focus on the Parable of the Great Banquet and how the banquet is an invitation from Christ. This invitation is not to be ignored but acted upon. Christ calls us to say "yes" as well as share the...

Dr. Charles Ware joins us to give a message called "Color Me Love."

Imagine you’re a teenager. Your mom has just left you at home alone for the weekend and you’re in charge of the house. You can’t believe you finally get to decide for yourself what to do. The possibilities are endless! Mom has just a few chores for...

This week we will begin a 6-week journey into the parables of Jesus by digging into the Parable of the Dishonest Manager found in Luke 16:1-13. This parable may be one that you have read several times and yet still don’t fully grasp. But when we are...

There was a day where you didn’t get something new until the last one was broken? I know, I know, it sounds crazy but it’s true. You didn’t wait in line for a new phone while holding a perfectly good phone. You didn’t buy a new computer until, well...

The best mentors and coaches in my life say this often, “Remember, love people.” People are a gift from God. Relationships are a gift from God. Companionship is a gift from God.This week we continue fleeing from seeking ultimate meaning in riches...

The Lord has filled our days with beautiful things to enjoy. And when we are freed from the pursuit of finding meaning for our life apart from God, we are freed to enjoy the beauty in a day that He gives us.This week we are going to let Ecclesiastes...

Peter has spent a lot of ink equipping these Christians for suffering and encouraging them in the midst of suffering. And this week, we get a goldmine for practical equipping for seasons of suffering.We will focus in on 1 Peter 4:19 and together we...

We are told again and again to remember that this world is not our home. It’s hard when the world shouts so many messages to make this world our home. So what do we do? In this week’s passage, we get some help to know how to live in this world as we...

We are told again and again to remember that this world is not our home. It’s hard when the world shouts so many messages to make this world our home. So what do we do? In this week’s passage, we get some help to know how to live in this world as we...

You will come under fire for your faith at some point. It’s not a matter of if, but when and how often. You’ll take an unpopular, biblical stand and people won’t like it. Some of your family may mock you for becoming a “Bible-thumping, Jesus...

God invented marriage. He said it was supposed to be really good. And yet not enough of His people would describe their marriage as "really good."So let’s have Him change that. Let’s get after pursuing the marriage He has called us to. And...

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt abnormal - like you’re the odd one out? Maybe it’s when you were in-line at a coffee shop and didn’t understand the specifics of each drink. Maybe it was when you were traveling and it seemed like...

A good team meeting has 3 parts to it:1) it includes and focuses on the whole team2) it reminds us who we are3) it reminds us what we are doing or trying to accomplishIn this message, we'll get a great team meeting. We'll look at this...

Everyone loves and everyone longs. We all love people and things and we all have longing for somewhere or something. The Christian, like all people, has loves and longings, but these are shaped by God. Ultimately we love and long for Him, and this...

So we are in this series on 1 Peter... I was ready to preach the next section of 1 Peter... But God said to preach something else. Rarely have we interrupted a series to preach something else, but when the Spirit says, "preach this," you...

After Peter's rich start to a rich letter, he gets into some practicals. How should God's grace lavished on us impact and influence the life of the child of God? We'll find in this passage that someone who understands the inheritance...

Peace. It's elusive. Especially when life is hard. We start our study in Peter's letter to a group of believers spread across areas that make up modern-day Turkey. Six verses into the letter we find out that these believers are being...

RESURRECTION SUNDAY IS HERE! What more needs to be said? Our resurrection hope is in a resurrected Christ. The change in venue this Easter doesn't change the reality of our worship of a resurrected Savior! Let's get our hearts ready for...

So many thoughts, opinions, ideas, reactions to the name Jesus. So many people have thoughts on who they want Jesus to be, but Jesus is ultimately the Savior we need Him to be. The Palm Sunday crowds on the Jerusalem streets had a certain messiah...

Every family is different. We all grew up with different traditions and different norms. Our childhoods taught us what was normal, what was expected of us, and even what to believe. We’re doing the same for our children. We’re teaching them by what we...