TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion. Application / Challenge Pastor Doug leaves us with some questions (and answers): TAKE ONE STEP Each week, write down one doable concrete…
Follow Jesus’ journey to the cross in this family-friendly service of music and scripture. 6 – 7 pm.
TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion. Application / Challenge TAKE ONE STEP Each week, write down one doable concrete step of obedience, small or large, that you will…
In this portion of our study, Jacob makes his way from his home in Beersheba to Haran where his uncle Laban lives. Jacob lives with his uncle and ends up marrying two of his daughters–Leah and Rachel. But these marriages are ironically brought about through deception. Jacob the deceiver is deceived himself. The Law of Sowing and reaping has come home to Jacob. What comes around, goes around!
God appears to Jacob at a place called Bethel and repeats his promise to bless him with a place, a people, a program, his presence and protection. Jacob deserves none of this. But we discover that grace surprises, offends, overflows and impresses. It is designed to elicit a life of worshipful devotion.
TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion. Application / Challenge TAKE ONE STEP Each week, write down one doable concrete step of obedience, small or large, that you will…
Over the centuries God’s people have made close, intimate binding relationships with those who reject our faith and worldview, bringing great pain to themselves. We see this mistake when we compare Jacob and his twin Esau…
God is the source of all blessing. Sometimes that blessing provokes jealousy in others and they may seek to take what we have. If that happens, how will you respond? Will you fight fire with fire? Will you cling to what you have, fearing that others may take it away? Or will you trust God…
Too often we find ourselves acting just like our parents. Growing up we vowed we would imitate our parents in the things we thought they did well and improve upon what we didn’t like. But oftentimes, under duress, we find ourselves doing or saying things we vowed to ourselves we would never do…
TaLKING POINTS / WALKING POINTS View the sermon summary or dig deeper into the message during the sermon, in your personal Bible study, or with your family or Community Group in application-driven discussion. Choose the blessing of God over those fleeting things this world offers. Application / Challenge TAKE ONE STEP Each week, write down…