Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Genesis

All About Him

GENESIS 1:1,27 – In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  ALL ABOUT HIM.  These may very well be the most important verses in the entire bible.  If not, they are ones…

Lived Before There Was a Romans 8:28

GENESIS 50:15-20 – When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and…

The Preventing Grace of God

GENESIS 20:1–6 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a…

Where All Sin Begins

GENESIS 3:1-11: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said,…

Healing Fractured Relationships

GENESIS 26: 34-35: When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.” THEME OF THE DAY – HEALING FRACTURED RELATIONSHIPS: It is not unrealistic to assume, in some fashion, we have family relationships that might…