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  • Stolen Blessing | Dave Jeffreys

    Stolen Blessing | Dave Jeffreys
    Oct 29 2025
    Isaac had planned to bless his favorite son Esau, but Isaac's wife Rebecca wanted the blessing to go to her favorite son Jacob. So, she hatches a plan for Jacob to trick Isaac into blessing him rather than his brother. When you read this story, you can't help but notice just how dysfunctional this family is. The marriage is messed up, the parenting is messed up... the whole story is pretty sad. However, if we're willing to learn from their dysfunction, we can have families that are full of much more joy, harmony, and grace.

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    32 Min.
  • The Akedah

    The Akedah
    Oct 5 2025
    Abraham's near sacrifice of Isaac is one of Scripture's most challenging stories, and has been interpreted a number of ways. Exploring the story from 3 distinct angles, we let it speak to us about holding our earthly loves with open hands, about refusing to hurt others in God's name, and about the good news that God in Christ steps into our impossible situations to do for us what we could never do for ourselves.

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    29 Min.
  • Living by Faith

    Living by Faith
    Sep 30 2025
    We are told over and over again in scripture to be people who live by faith. But what does that mean? What does it look like in our day to day lives to "live by faith?" Ironically, Abraham is known for being a man of faith, but in Gen. 16 we see him and his wife Sarah make some very poor decisions. In this particular chapter, they stand out as examples of how not to live by faith... not their finest moment. However, we can learn a lot about what it means to live by faith even from their failure.

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    34 Min.
  • Responding to God's Goodness

    Responding to God's Goodness
    Sep 23 2025
    God chooses a man named Abram and makes a covenant with him. We learn through this covenant about the character of God. We also see how we (the church) fit into this covenant as both recipients and participants.

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    29 Min.
  • The Great Flood

    The Great Flood
    Sep 14 2025
    In Genesis 6-9, we find one of the most famous and infamous stories in the Bible: the story of Noah and the Great Flood. In this story, God goes on a journey toward acceptance of an imperfect relationship with his imperfect creatures, because God refuses to give up on his creatures and his creation.

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    33 Min.
  • Cain and Abel

    Cain and Abel
    Sep 7 2025
    Cain experiences rejection, which causes dejection, and when dejection wins in our lives, our brother pays the price. But while Cain is the first killer, God does not abandon him because if when we fail to keep our brother, God still keeps us.

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    29 Min.
  • Bad News and Good News

    Bad News and Good News
    Sep 7 2025
    After a few chapters of God's creation being "very good," in chapter 3 of Genesis things take a turn for the worse. Adam and Eve sin against God and as a result, everything is broken. This is the tragic event known as "the Fall of man." However, chapter 3 of Genesis is not all bad news. After mankind sins against God, we do see some good news from a good God who doesn't leave us and has a plan for our redemption.

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    30 Min.
  • Eden

    Eden
    Aug 24 2025
    God fills creation with beauty and pleasure. So while we should avoid the misguided pursuit of beauty and pleasure that we call worldliness, we must remember it is not misguided to pursue beauty and pleasure, for God is the author of it.

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    29 Min.