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1. Genesis 12:1-4a

Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... loyalty was clearly not to one God, as documented in Joshua 24:2. Yet there remains a Jewish tradition that the first "call" from the Lord came to Terah at Ur. This is the reason, tradition suggests, that Terah left Ur and set out for "the land of Canaan" (Genesis 11:31). But Terah failed to follow through on his original intentions, and when he and his family reached Haran, they settled there. The text records that Terah was able to get out of Ur but that he failed to break with all the old ties that kept ...

2. Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Holy Spirit's constant, empowering presence in Jesus' life and ministry as he now enters Galilee and begins his public ministry. The verb Luke uses to describe Jesus' ordeal ("to test," v. 12) is employed in the Old Testament both when God tests people (Genesis 22:1-19) and when humans put God to the test (Exodus 17:2). This Old Testament testing motif is also echoed by the obvious parallel between Jesus' 40 days of wilderness testing and the 40 years of wilderness wanderings that tested Israel. Likewise ...

3. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... that married 25 year old woman. When they got home from the wedding the young bride looked at her old husband and said, “Would you like to go upstairs and recapture your youth?” He looked at her and said, “I can’t do both!” Then we read these words in Genesis 21:1-3. “Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac ...

4. Bystanders or Standbys

Genesis 2:4-25

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Leonard Sweet

... prayer to be prayed, another laugh to be shared. Standing “face-to-face,” side-by-side, a “partner” who delivers us from loneliness or what God recognized as the first great gap in the divine creativity, this horizontal relationship is the final creative act of the Genesis 2 God. In Jewish lore there is a story about a boy who was a fugitive from the Nazis. The boy fled to a small Jewish village and asked for refuge, and the villagers hid him. When the Nazis came looking for him, they announced to ...

5. Paradise Lost

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... because of fear. This is the first time that fear occurs in the Bible. Friendship and fellowship had been replaced by fear. The real problem was guilt. “He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?’” (Genesis 3:11, ESV) Just hours before Adam had been naked and it didn’t him or God. For the first time we see a human being haunted by the ghost of guilt. There is a new trinity in Adam’s life. It used to be God the Father, God the ...

6. The Spread of Sin

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... garden. And you remember that we said that story was the symbol of the way we all have walked with our God. We all have tried to make God unnecessary and to be our own gods and goddesses. The stories that follow the account of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3-11, then portray the spread of our sin among all humankind and God’s increasingly severe judgment on that wrong. In the story of Cain and Abel, brother is set against brother, and Cain slays Abel. The result is that Cain becomes a fugitive and a wanderer on ...

7. Jacob’s Dream - A Dream Come True W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 27:1-40

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... in him. The word from the ladder continues as the Lord says, "Behold I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you ..." (Genesis 28) This promise of his continued presence will continue down through and to the yet to come children of God’s creation. This reminds us immediately of, "... and lo I am with you always to the close of the age. (Matthew 28:20a) This is our power for his mission ...

8. Alone

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... a garden that needs to be tended, tilled, human dialog which is there as potential. It is a world of many horizons, a world that God is not yet done with. He enters this dialog with us to engage us with Him in this task of completing his creation. So Genesis tells us. And when the human species is given the mandate to till and keep the garden, it is our human function and place to join God and ourselves to engage in this process of creation, to tame and nurture, to mold and form and give shape, to guide the ...

9. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... s way of saying, "I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth." How? Big Bang? Little Whimper? We do not know. Let the scientists argue that out. One brief aside. I mentioned earlier that this account is one of TWO creation stories in Genesis. The second one is just as familiar and is hundreds and hundreds of years older - the story of Adam and Eve. It was the ancient Hebrew parent or grandparent's way of answering a child's question, "Where did we come from?" History? Not any more than ...

10. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... more slowly and gives more details. It does not cover a thousand years in a single breath. It slows down to a pace with which we can keep up as it traces the life story of men and a nation. "In contrast, the first eleven chapters of Genesis are epic in their scope. Their sweep is tremendous. Incomprehensible periods of time are covered in a few words. Stupendous events are described with a brevity and matter of fact-ness of a child's fairy story. Many people have been misled by that simple, naive style ...

11. Let's Take This from the Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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James Merritt

... we have been put here is to have a personal relationship with the God who put us here. To understand why we are here we have to know how we got here and Who put us here. We find that story in the first two chapters of Genesis. [Turn to Genesis 1] There is no question that the centerpiece of creation was the human race. Everything culminates in the creation of the first man and the first woman. Scripture devotes more space to describing the creation of the first man than any other facet of creation. As we ...

12. The Prophet of Locusts and Honey

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... telling Enoch that as long as his son was alive, God would forbear judgment. Enoch made his son's name a prophecy: “When he dies, it will come” or “his death shall bring it.” If you add up the numerical data given in the chrono-genealogy of Genesis 5, you will see that Methuselah lived until the year of the Flood. (See, e.g., Spirit of Prophecy, v. 1, p. 170: “Methuselah, the grandfather of Noah, lived until the very year of the flood; and there were others who believed the preaching of Noah, and ...

13. God’s Great Promise To Sarah!

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... , Sarah and Abraham were reunited and sent on their way. In this story both the Pharaoh and Sarah came out looking much better than Abraham. The next significant event in Sarah’s life has to do with the truth that "Sarah, Abram’s wife, bore him no children" (Genesis 16:1). According to the customs of that time it was right and generous of Sarah to be willing to let her maid, Hagar bear a child to her husband. Children born of such a union were accepted as the children, not of the maid but of the wife ...

14. Building a New Team

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... . Chapters 37-50 focus on Joseph, and describe how the nation eventually wound up in Egypt, from which it has so recently emerged. Genesis 17 is part of the second section of the book, and God is building a new team. God’s covenant-making initiatives with ... individuals of similar social rank in the ancient world (think of Jacob and Laban forming their parity treaty at the end of Genesis 31), there were two forms of king-subject covenants. One was a “Royal Grant.” This was essentially a gift bestowed by a ...

15. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fact from Elijah to Elisha represents the passing of the power of God that rests upon him. The garment that rests upon the one who wears it, or spreads out upon another, represents the hovering of the Holy Spirit over the face of the waters in Genesis. (Genesis 1:2).** In the raising of a boy by both Elijah and Elisha, they laid their bodies over the deceased to “warm” them. In other cases, the mantle itself contains healing, as in the “apron” of Paul. Both Paul’s “apron” as well as the bones ...

16. Some Crossroads of Family Life W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 25:19-34

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... 25:24) "The first came forth red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they called him Esau. Afterward his brother came forth, and his hand had taken hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them." (Genesis 25:25-26) This birth was now another crossroad in the life of this family. Esau was so named because of his hairy body and the red complexion. Jacob was so named, many say because he was holding Esau’s heel as he left the womb, Another meaning of ...

17. God Hears

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... that your heart's most fervent prayers cannot manage to get past the ceiling, remember God hears. God hears the cry. Hagar's, Ishmael's, mine and yours. God hears. And answers. Amen! 1. "Horseplay and High Stakes," Newsweek, 7/24/2000, p. 24 2. Genesis 16:2-4a 3. Genesis 16:9ff. 4. Genesis 21:9-10 5. This is adapted from a Ralph Milton midrash on the Story of Hagar and Her Son. These excerpts were posted by John Lohr, Franklin Lakes, NJ in the PresbyNet meeting "Sermonshop 1996 06 23, Note #8, 6/17/96 and ...

18. Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Genesis 5:21-24, Hebrews 11:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... men ever to live, but never to die (the other one being Elijah) he teaches us some great truths about our life on earth and the life to come. I. We Can Enjoy Intimate Fellowship With God Very simply we are told in verse 22, "Then Enoch walked with God." (Genesis 5:22, NASB) Now anybody can walk with God, but not everybody does. In fact, most people don't. Did you know that you can literally walk with God? I read about a missionary in India, who had lead several people in a village to faith in Christ. One of ...

19. Kingdoms in Conflict

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the team which would become the advance troops in taking back God's world from the evil intruders. Chapters 26-36 are a character study of how Jacob became "Israel" (one who struggles with God) and thus bequeathed the nation with a name and an identity. Finally, Genesis 37-50 focused on Joseph, and described how the nation eventually wound up in Egypt, from which it had so recently emerged. The result was a new and winning team that would form God's estate among the rest of the nations of the world. This is ...

20. Dressed for the Banquet

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Chris Ewing

21. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in God. The many are one. And Jesus has revealed the relational nature of God, and the loving nature of God. The Lord God is One. But the Lord God also exists in relationship. And this is how the Apostle John accounts for the divinity of Jesus. In Genesis One, when God creates, the word for God is “Elohim.” It’s one of the strangest words in the Hebrew scriptures. Elohim is a plural word, and yet it is always followed by a singular verb. For the Jewish people, the word signifies the plurality of God ...

22. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... who may have been following along in your Bibles know that I lied. We had a sermon on Genesis 37 (Joseph's coat and his dream) and then a sermon on Joseph in Egypt beginning with Genesis 39. What happened to Genesis 38? I have never preached on Genesis 38. To my knowledge, after a thorough search in the library, no one has ever preached on Genesis 38. Get ready. You were there. [Read Genesis 38:1-27] Of this text, Walter Bruggemann has said, ''This peculiar chapter stands alone, without connection to its ...

23. Bearers of the Seed

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.” (Genesis 35:11, King James version) “Whereas therefore he was a prophet, and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the ... out those doors today and into the world to proclaim the mystery of the gospel. *The photo for this sermon is taken from www.fragrantica.com. ** See Genesis 1:22; 1:28; 8:17; 9:1; 9:7; 17:6; 17:20; 26:3-4; 26:22; 28:3; 35:11; 41:52; 47:27; ...

24. 2025 Lent Sermon Series

Sermon

Various Authors

... re Estranged from God – Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 2. When We Are Tempted – Luke 4:1-13 3. When We Are Uncertain about the Future - Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 4. When the Drought Gets Really Bad – Isaiah 55:1-9 5. When We Feel Lost – Luke 15:11-32 6. When ... 6:1-4, 5-6, 16-18 2. Are You Giving up Chocolate for Valentine’s Day? – Luke 4:1-13 3. The Word According to Superman – Genesis 15:1-18 4. Second Chances – Luke 13:1-9 5. A Lost Boy – Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 6. Eyes Fixed Upon the Goal – Philippians ...

25. Climbing Rainbows Through The Rain

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... how God continues to deal with us. We need to take this seriously. This is God's word to us. If we get to reading the passage instead of arguing about it, its authentic message begins to open for us. A central theme of the book of Genesis is that God had something in mind when he created the world. God placed very special creatures, human beings, in the midst of a wonderfully good world and gave them the responsibility to take care of it. God expected a marvelous relationship to develop between the Creator ...

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