Battling Brothers

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Battling Brothers

June 4, 2023 • Gerrit Dawson • Genesis 4:1–16

The question is “What is God calling me to do now? If this is the way it is, then how am I going to respond faithfully to God in the next moment?”

Cain was having none of that. He got angry. The elder brother was supposed to realize the dream for the family. And he had been rejected. Genesis tells us that his face fell.

There was a storm cloud across his countenance. These boys hadn’t yet learned how to hide their emotions. His heart came out in his expressions.

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How Can I Know?

July 23, 2023 • Colton Underwood • Genesis 15:7–21

God knew that we could never keep our hold on him, so he has unbreakable, he fastened his hand to ours. God knew that we would be prone to wander and leave the God we love, so he has sealed our hearts and hemmed us in by his love, a love that will not let us go. God knew that we would doubt and wonder, that we would question and struggle, that we would fall back into sin time and time again, so he did this, he walked down the aisle alone. #doubt #promises #Genesis #created #godcreatedtheworld #imageofgod #sermon #worship #firstpresbyterianbr #creator

Praying for Sodom and Gomorrah

July 9, 2023 • Scott Graham • Genesis 18:16–33

Why was God ready to judge Sodom and Gomorrah? Yes, of course, the sexual sin that is so graphically described in Genesis 19 is part of it, but that’s not the root reason. The prophet Ezekiel spells it out for us: “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50) #holding #praying #judgement #brokenheart #Genesis #created #godcreatedtheworld #imageofgod #sermon #worship #firstpresbyterianbr #creator

The God Who Sees

June 25, 2023 • Gerrit Dawson • Genesis 16

Sometimes, we have been so lost that we thought no one could ever find us. Perhaps we thought we had made a home in hell. Regular society seemed closed to us. We could never keep time with respectable people again. But as we remember the story of Hagar, we recall how God found us. We may have tangled our lives into such a mess that a ball of knotted fishing line seemed easy to unravel by comparison. But the LORD saw us. He regarded us. He scooped us up. He cut us free of the unbreakable knots that bound us. He showed us that he loves us. He set us back in community.