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Genesis 17 – The Covenant Faithfulness of God

HEART PREPARATION Twenty-four years have passed since God appeared to Abram in Genesis 15. In the midst of this waiting, Abram faithlessly attempted to attain the covenant through his own wisdom and strength. But now God has appeared to Abram again to affirm his covenant with a sign. The sign of this covenant is a […]

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Posted on: January 7, 2016 - 10:00PM

Genesis 16 – The God Who Sees and Hears

HEART PREPARATION El Roi (The God Who Sees) sees past, present, and future. He sees the outcast on her knees. He will assure that it all works together for good because His lovingkindness is from everlasting to everlasting. He holds your future in His hands. It may not look like it now but you have […]

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Posted on: December 31, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 15 – Abraham’s Righteousness by Faith

HEART PREPARATION It was a good work to leave his country and his father’s house at God’s bidding; it was a good work to separate from Lot in so noble a spirit; it was a good work to follow after the robber-kings with undaunted courage; it was a grand work to refuse to take the […]

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Posted on: December 25, 2015 - 10:49AM

Advent 2015 – Luke 2:25-35 – A Light for the Nations

HEART PREPARATION Simeon explicitly says that this baby will not only be the glory of his own people Israel. He will also be the light of revelation for the Gentiles. He’s not just for Israel. He didn’t come just for their benefit. He came to shine a light of the revelation of God into every […]

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Posted on: December 18, 2015 - 8:55AM

Advent 2015 – Luke 2:8-14 – Good News of Great Joy

HEART PREPARATION It was much that there was born a Saviour – much that there was born a Messiah. Men needed a deliverer, and the proclamation here is best kept in its widest meaning – as of one who sets free from all ills outward and inward, and brings all outward and inward good. The […]

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Posted on: December 10, 2015 - 10:00PM

Advent 2015 – Luke 1:26-38 – Faith in the Word of God

HEART PREPARATION Let us not do as Zacharias did. Dear friend, are you at this moment questioning any promise? Are you saying, “How shall I know this?” Cease from doubting the infallible word and rest in the Lord, His Holy Spirit enabling you to believe. On the other hand, are you a seeking sinner and […]

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Posted on: November 26, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 13-14 – Faith in the Promises of God

HEART PREPARATION Why should he, who has God’s promise that all the land is his, squabble with his kinsman about pasture and wells? The herdsmen naturally would come to high words and blows, especially as the available land was diminished by the claims of the ‘Canaanite and Perizzite.’ But the direct effect of Abram’s faith […]

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Posted on: November 19, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 12 – Faith in the Call of God

HEART PREPARATION The authority of God should in our minds be paramount to every other authority. As he “consulted not with flesh and blood,” when once the Divine will was intimated to him, so neither should we: it should be sufficient for us that God hath commanded any thing: there should then be no inquiry […]

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Posted on: November 12, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 11 – Man’s Attempts to Gain Glory and God’s Gracious Judgment

HEART PREPARATION Thus the story of the founding of Babylon has been carefully constructed around key terms and ideas. The people of the land were at first united as one people sharing one language and living in the “land”. They moved “eastward” and built a city to make a name for themselves in order not […]

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Posted on: November 5, 2015 - 10:00PM

Genesis 9:18-10:32 – A New Beginning and Hope for the Nations

HEART PREPARATION A funnel is an instrument for concentrating the flow of something from a wide area into a small area. That’s what’s happening here [in this text]. Although it appears that God is working only with nations, the end of the chapter reminds us that the line of promise goes from one man to […]

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Posted on: October 29, 2015 - 10:00PM