Podcast: Download (101.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 06/07/17 Message – God Tests the Heart Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 20-21 Click HERE for Video God Tests the Heart Genesis 22 V1 – God’s Test’s hearts (V1-2) Psalm 7:9, “Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just; For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.” Prov. 17:3, “The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests the hearts.” 1Thess. 2:4, “But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, […]
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Faith is a topic which is widely misunderstood. This is largely due to it’s being treated like a religious topic or a “tool” to manipulate circumstances and ultimately God to make our own lives more satisfying.
Any Biblical idea which has been stripped of its relational context is doomed to mislead people in the end.
Faith is nothing more that relational, whole-hearted trust placed in God as a RESULT of Him taking the initiative to reveal Himself to us in any area of our live. The trust we place in Him, initiates from Him. As He reveals Who He is to us, the heart response of trusting Him to be Who He reveals Himself to be is what faith is – nothing less and nothing more.
Deception, Persecution & Loss – Genesis 20 & 21
Podcast: Download (97.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 05/31/17 Message – Deception, Persecution & Loss Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 20-21 Click HERE for Video Deception, Persecution and Loss Genesis 20 Abraham does it again – he acts deceitfully. Evidently Sarah is still HOT. God warns Abimelech in a dream. God closed all the wombs in his house until this was rectified. Abimelech apparently “knew about” God. Of course, remember Shem was still alive and the dispersion was still a fairly recent event. Notice, there seems to be a inner knowing that the true God of all the earth […]
Continue readingDinner and a Smoking Date – Genesis 18 & 19
Podcast: Download (98.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 05/24/17 Message – Dinner and a Smoking Date Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 18-19 Click HERE for Video Dinner and Smoking Date Chapter 18 God comes to Abraham in “their spot” – by the Terebinth trees – NOT in the cool of the day as in the garden but in the heat of the day. There were Abraham saw three men – one was El Shaddai and two were angels (which we discover later in 19:1). Abraham (at 99) RUNS to them and bows down to the ground – asking them to […]
Continue readingEl Shaddai – Genesis 17
Podcast: Download (106.9MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Wednesday 05/10/17 Message – El Shaddai Series: Thru the Bible – Genesis 17 Click HERE for Video El Shaddai Genesis 17 (Chapter review) God appears to Abram after 13 years of apparent silence. Abram falls down before God – it is not said in reverence & worship or in fear and exasperation at what He might say… At this point Ishmael was 13. Abram had come to accept Ishmael as the answer to God’s promise vs. 18 – “Oh that Ishmael might live before you” God reveals Himself as Almighty God – El […]
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