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Showing posts with label God's Promises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's Promises. 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...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Sermon Video: The Supporting Cast at Advent: Simeon - Luke 2:25-35

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  After the shepherds and the angels had paid their visit on the day of Jesus' birth, Luke offers a look at two individuals led by the H...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Sermon Video: The Holy Spirit is our guarantee - Ephesians 1:11-14

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Already in Ephesians Paul has shared with us the awesome benefits of being "in him," that is, in Jesus Christ: (1) We have become ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

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 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, 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, 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 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...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Sermon Video: The Promised Land, Genesis 12:4-9

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  God's promise to Abram about the land of Canaan is the foundation for a conversation about the challenging history and complicated pre...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Sermon Video: God's Grace in Action: The Call of Abram, Genesis 11:10-12:3

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Following the Tower of Babel incident, when God dispersed a human effort to establish his presence among humanity, the narrative of Genesis ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Sermon Video: The sign of God's covenant with Noah, Genesis 9:1-17

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Symbols can be powerful, they can evoke love or hate, assurance or fear.  They can be put to righteous purposes, or evil ones.  In Genesis 9...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Sermon Video: Jesus: Fulfilling God's promises to the Jews, showing mercy to the Gentiles - Romans 15:7-13

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In his conclusion to the section that began in chapter 14 about the need for Christians to accept each other, Paul offers us a telling analo...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Sermon Video: Why the Church cannot replace Israel: God's plan includes them, Romans 11:25-32

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There is a simple and excellent reason why the creation of the Church and the instituting of the New Covenant, both at the direction of Jesu...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Sermon Video: Why God made Israel jealous - Romans 11:7-15

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When the majority of the Israelite people in Paul's generation rejected Jesus as Messiah, did God give up on them?  Absolutely not.  God...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Sermon Video: "being fully persuaded that God had the power to do what he had promised." - Romans 4:13-22

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Why was Abraham able to wait, without losing his faith in God and hope in God's promises, for YEARS as both he and Sarah grew older and ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Sermon Video: The Messiah: David's son and Lord, Mark 12:35-37

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While in the Temple courts, Jesus takes the opportunity to set forth a riddle concerning the Messiah, one that his own Virgin Birth is the a...