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Showing posts with label Abraham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Sermon Video: Isaac's Covenant with the LORD - Genesis 26:1-33

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Having introduced the rivalry between Jacob and Esau in chapter 25, Moses now recounts the ways in which God's interactions with Isaac e...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Sermon Video: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Abraham's Family Tree - Genesis 24:62-25:18

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  In a transitional section between the finding of Rebekah as Isaac's wife and the birth of their twin boys Esau and Jacob, Genesis paus...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Sermon Video: Finding a Wife for Isaac - The Faith of Rebekah, Genesis 24:28-61

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  After God's providential choice of Rebekah to be Isaac's future wife is revealed to Abraham's servant through his faithful pra...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Sermon Video: Finding a Wife for Isaac - the Faith of Eliezer, Genesis 24:1-27

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  The unnamed servant of Genesis 24 (we will assume him to be the same servant as in Genesis 15, Eliezer, for simplicity's sake) plays a...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Sermon Video: A Grieving Abraham is Swindled - Genesis 22:20-23:20

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Following the death of his beloved wife Sarah, Abraham seeks to buy a plot of land from his neighbors for her tomb.  For both religious and ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Sermon Video: Abraham: A foreigner in a foreign land, Genesis 21:22-34

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The interactions between Abimelek and Abraham serve as a template for God's teaching on the respect and kindness God expects from his fo...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Sermon Video: The God of the downtrodden - Genesis 21:8-21

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After the birth of Isaac, both Sarah and Abraham fail to treat Hagar and Ishmael with kindness.  In fact, Sarah seems to hate them both, and...

Sermon Video: God's Promises - The Birth of Isaac, Genesis 21:1-7

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  After decades of waiting, the promised son of Abraham and Sarah arrives. What does this miracle birth tells us about God's promises? ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Sermon Video: When the sins of God's people harm others - Genesis 20

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In this chapter, Abraham returns to an old ruse, one he used disastrously back in chapter 12 of Genesis.  Like then, Abraham's plan invo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Sermon Video: Do Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures? - Genesis 19:30-38

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In a disturbing episode that speaks to the trauma and hopelessness of those it involves, Genesis relates the origin of the two tribes that w...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Sermon Video: The LORD rescues Lot from Sodom - Genesis 19:1-29

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Once again Genesis focuses on  Abraham's nephew Lot, a secondary character in the story Moses is telling, but one whose life has impacte...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Sermon Video: The Ancestors of the Messiah - Matthew 1:1-17

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When you are someone as important to history as Jesus of Nazareth, the long-awaited Messiah, curiosity about your ancestry is only natural. ...

Sermon Video: Abraham pleads with God to spare Sodom, Genesis 18:16-33

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In a fascinating conversation, Abraham humbly pleads with God on behalf of the soon-to-be condemned city of Sodom. Why?  We know that his ne...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Sermon Video: Is Anything Too Hard for the LORD? - Genesis 18:1-15

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  Through the lens of God's conversation with Abraham and Sarah about the impending birth of Isaac, consider the question of limitations...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Sermon Video: Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision - Genesis 17

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  Genesis 17 picks up the narrative 13 years after the birth of Ishmael in Genesis 16.  At this point Abram and Sarai have been in the Promi...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Sermon Video: God responds to the foolish choice of Abram and Sarai - Genesis 16

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  Abraham and Sarah are heroes of the faith, but they made plenty of mistakes along the way.  One of the most serious of them was the decisi...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Sermon Video: The LORD and Abraham "cut" a covenant - Genesis 15:7-21

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As a sign to offer reassurance about the future to Abraham, the LORD utilizes an Ancient Near Eastern custom involving the cutting-in-two of...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Sermon Video: God credits Abram's faith as righteousness - Genesis 15:1-6

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Does faith exclude anxiety and fear?  As it turns out, it does not.  Abraham, the "father of faith" had them.  Abram's promise...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Sermon Video: Abram rescues Lot, then tithes to Melchizedek - Genesis 14

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In Genesis 14 the story of Abram is dragged into the drama of a regional war when his nephew Lot is taken along with the spoils following on...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Sermon Video: Abram and Lot go their own ways - Genesis 13

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After his failure to trust God while sojourning in Egypt, how will Abram react the next time he needs to live by faith in God's promises...