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"Lift your chin" is a phrase we throw around here at Genesis, and one we hope sticks here. We live busy lives in a fairly self- absorbed world, but the Gospel reveals a Messiah who lifted His chin to see and rescue us. Christ changes our lives, places us in a community, and then He shapes the way we see the world around us. As a church, it is our desire to be a community on mission, a family of people who lift our chins to see Jesus, our brothers and sisters, our neighbors, and the nations. As we begin our new school-year rhythms, our Fall vision series will invite us to be a people who lift o
Today, in our Sermon Series "The Serpent Must Die," we will fast forward to the end. The Serpent has been defeated. Yet, he still is active in our world, blinding unbelievers and making accusation against God's elect; however, that is coming to an end. Jesus will soon return and make all things new! Satan, the Anti-Christ, and death will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. Our final sermon in this series will remind us of Satan's final home, and ask the serious question: Where will your final home be? Will you be with Jesus in paradise, or will we join Satan in the Lake of Fire, separated from Go
Today, in our Sermon Series "The Serpent Must Die, " it has all been leading to this: The Serpent Killer Himself has entered the scene. It wasn't just one act, however, of serpent-icide - the events of Jesus' whole life have fulfilled shadows, pictures, prophecies, and promises of what the Son of Man would come to do. All the chess pieces are on the board - will Jesus crush the serpent, or will the serpent win? I think you already know the answer, but join us today as we look at Colossians and the book of Mark to see how Jesus puts his foot firmly on the head of the serpent - and in doing so,
Today our Sermon Series: "The Serpent Must Die" once again shows us an Old Testament command that foreshadows the coming work of Jesus. Leviticus 16 is where God commands ancient Israel to make atonement for their sins by sacrificing bulls and goats on the Day of Atonement. But ultimately, the blood of bulls and goats is not adequate to cover the sins of mankind. So in his loving kindness, God sent the perfect sacrifice to pay for sin once and for all and by so doing, kills the serpent! What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
When we talk about David, our minds almost always jump to the story of David and Goliath. The unassuming shepherd boy who God used to defeat the Philistines. This shepherd would eventually become King, the best human King that Israel had in fact. But today, we see the other side of David in the Psalms. We'll see how David suffered unrighteously and felt God had abandoned him; we'll also see however when David cried out in repentance, God was faithful to restore David. David was human and needed forgiveness for his sins; however, the beautiful truth is that Psalm 22 is not just about David -- i
The book of Hosea is a poetic story of God's unfailing love for His bride, the Church. But, the way God calls the prophet Hosea to illustrate this is not exactly what you'd expect. This is a difficult but beautiful book depicting how far Israel had fallen into idolatry and yet how much deeper God's grace and mercy flows. Our tendency is to listen to our hearts, which deceive us all too well into running after idols that will never satisfy. The Serpent would then have us believe that God will never take us back because of our betrayal, and that if we do want to return to Him, we must earn our w
Do you know what title Jesus used for Himself most often? You might think He called Himself the Son of God, or Messiah, or even Lord. While Jesus refers to Himself in all these ways, the most common self- reference is as the Son of Man. Interesting? At first glance it might seem as if in calling Himself the Son of Man, Jesus might be identifying Himself as one of us, a human being living among us. But a deeper study of this title actually reveals a completely different image---one coming from a crazy vision given to the Prophet Daniel around 560 years earlier. Daniel lived as a Jewish exile, i
"It's a David beats Goliath story!" As a sports fan, I have heard this phrase used countless times when referring to major upsets. Whether it's the 1983 North Carolina State upset of Houston in the NCAA Tournament, or the victory of the USA Hockey Team over the Soviets in the Olympics, David and Goliath is used when the underdog and little guy defeats the giant, the overwhelming favorite. In church life, the story of David and Goliath is often used as motivation for fighting your giants, and standing strong even when you look defeated. You are David, it has been said, and with God on your side
In our continuing sermon series "The Serpent Must Die", we come to a very important story that involves Moses wanting to see more of God's glory. God knows that if Moses sees all of His glory, Moses will evaporate into a messy pile of atoms - but God shows mercy and grace to him and allows Him to see some of His glory - just the back side for just a moment. Is God destined to be distant from us forever, to hide His glory from us, or will He allow us to see HIs glory? The answer, of course, is Jesus - the full revelation of the Glory of God. The Serpent wants us to focus on our own glory, our o
Moses is a figure of tremendous importance and we'll spend a couple of weeks with him. Today, we'll see two immensely significant sections of his story where, when the people of God grumble against Him, God sends fiery snakes among them. Then as Moses intercedes for God's people, God makes a way of escape through a serpent on a pole (not THE Serpent, but one who represented the punishment of treason against our God); in the same way, in another story, amongst the complaints of the Hebrew people, God provides a rock where, when Moses struck it, it gushed water for the people of God to drink. Je
We saw last week that God would provide Someone to come and crush the head of the serpent. That Someone was to come through a man named Abraham. God promised that He would make Abraham a great nation, that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through him, and that blessing would come through a child born to Abraham and his wife, Sarah. The child arrives. It's everything they could have ever wished for. So how is that promise going to come to fruition when God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering? How is the head of the serpent to be crushed if there is no line fro
Today we start a summer sermon series where we will see Jesus' promised victory over our enemy, giving up His life for us and securing our salvation, and fulfilling Genesis 3---The Serpent Must Die! The Bible is full of promises of the coming Messiah -- some are so easy to see that even secular scholars can't deny that these promises are talking about a future Messiah. Others are a little more complicated and require a close eye to the details. But in all of them, starting in Genesis 3, we see that Jesus has a plan from the moment of humanity's fall into sinful rebellion -- crush the head of t
Just 50 days after the Cross...at Pentecost...the early church numbering about 120, huddled in an upper room in Jerusalem, received the empowering Holy Spirit, for the purpose of proclaiming Christ to the lost world around them. But, the world hates the gospel and reacts to muffle the voice of the believer--- and still does so today. However, there is something so much bigger, so much more powerful, happening in the grand story! The early Jerusalem believers understood it and drew strength from it. And, they often found it in a moment of gathered prayer...the Prayer Meeting! The Sovereign Auth
Just 50 days after the Cross...at Pentecost...the early church numbering about 120, huddled in an upper room in Jerusalem, received the empowering Holy Spirit, for the purpose of proclaiming Christ to the lost world around them. But, the world hates the gospel and reacts to muffle the voice of the believer---and still does so today. However, there is something so much bigger, so much more powerful, happening in the grand story! The early Jerusalem believers understood it and drew strength from it. And, they often found it in a moment of gathered prayer...the Prayer Meeting! The Sovereign Autho
We end our journey in the book of Judges with a story that is about as awful as you can find. The story focuses on a man and his concubine seeking a place to stay the night on the way to visit the Tabernacle. Believing he has found a place of hospitality, the story quickly turns ugly as the men from the city first try to take and rape the man, but instead tale his concubine, abuse and rape her to the point of death. The man's insane response leads to a civil war filled with violence against the tribe of Benjamin. The story just gets more violent and depraved from there, and at the center is th
The book of Judges ends with two horrible stories that reveal the distance Israel had fallen. The people rescued from slavery and brought into relationship with Yahweh became people so entrenched in their sin and idolatry that they didn't even realize they were worshiping different gods. The story of Micah, his idols, the personal priest, and the Danites is just bizarre. More important, it is the anti-Exodus and Joshua. In those stories, God rescues Israel from slavery, forms them as a people, gives them priests and leaders, and then gives them the Promised Land. This crazy story is laden with
Puritan John Owen warned, "Be killing sin or it will be killing you." We tend to think that if we are forgiven, we can go ahead and do whatever we want. The Samson story is a stark reminder that our sinful thoughts and actions always lead to devastation. Samson's sin took him further than he ever thought he would stray, kept him longer than he ever wanted to stay, and cost him more than he wanted to pay. God's warrior ends blind, enslaved, and hopeless. Yet, this was not the end of his story, God is always a God of second chances. So, from the pit of despair, Samson cries out and discovers tha
It doesn't take long to realize Samson is not a hero. We tend to picture Samson as this muscle bound warrior, something like Andre the Giant, who uses his incredible power to perform feats of strength. Yet, the story does not attribute Samson's power to his workout performance. Rather, Samson's story begins with the Spirit of the Lord stirring in him (13:25). On multiple occasions, it is the Spirit of the Lord coming on Samson, giving him the power to accomplish God's purpose of defeating and pushing back the Philistines. We can't read the Samson story without remembering that the same Holy Sp
We are honored to have Dr. Ronni Kurtz as our guest speaker this morning! He is an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. And, even more importantly, an EHS grad! The doctrine of the Trinity can feel abstract---how is it that one God can be three persons? When Christians set out to consider the Trinity, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by how other God is. In this sermon, Ronni Kurtz seeks to show how not only is the Trinity true, but why God's being three is beautiful. The aim of this sermon is to show how we are both satisfied and saved by the tr
One of the great gifts God gave humanity is the gift of marriage and sex. Sexuality is designed to bring oneness to a man and woman in a covenant relationship and paint a picture of Christ's love for His people. In the right context, sexuality is actually an act that glorifies God. On the other hand, sex is a terrible god and our sexuality is a powerful substitute. Everywhere false gods are worshiped, they are accompanied by broken and destructive sexual practices that often lead to the horrible objectification and mistreatment of people. As Samson steps on the scene, the first thing we discov
The events of the first Good Friday and Easter are central for the entire Christian faith. We believe the One True and Living God accomplished something cosmic and glorious in the death and resurrection of a single human being named Jesus. While thousands died on cruel Roman crosses in the ancient world, Jesus' death is unique as it was predicted hundreds of years before the events of that holy weekend some 2000 years ago. Furthermore, the story ends unlike no other, with the executed man walking out of His grave a few days later. But, you may ask, what does this have to do with me in 2026? Je
The Philistines were ruthless and horrible people. A sea-faring people who were the first to use iron in warfare, they inhabited the coast on the west side of Israel. They would become the key adversaries for Israel for generations. The unfaithfulness of Israel resulted in God giving them over to the Philistines for 40 years. The Samson story is born from this moment, but there is something missing in chapter 13. The people no longer cry out to God for deliverance; no longer look to Him for rescue. Yet, they are still God's covenant people, descendants of Abraham. They deserve their fate, but
What does it look like when someone becomes enslaved by their idols? What does it look like when someone lets the idols of the culture around them influence their worship of the one true God? We're going to look at examples of both questions this morning. One man is so enslaved by his idol that he resorts to murder. The other man is so influenced by the pagan culture around him that he makes a rash decision that costs him dearly. One man does not regard God at all while the other is saved by his faith in God despite his costly sin.
This morning's message is a cautionary tale that we are not to take our salvation lightly. Jesus did not pay a ransom for us so that we can pursue a life of comfort and self reliance. Our hearts are prone to wander, to putting ourselves and our needs as first priority in this life. We need to be reminded that through the work of our true deliverer, God did for us what we could not do ourselves. Through the sinless life of Jesus, His sacrificial death on the cross and His resurrection, our worship should turn to Him. The idols in our lives can be dislodged as we focus on a King who never fails
The narrative of how God uses Gideon to defeat the Midianites and Amalekites is one of the amazing moments in the Old Testament story. This is the God who promised to fight on behalf of His people, defeating their enemies in glorious ways so that He alone would get the credit. Gideon gathers an army of over 32,000 men to go fight. But this is not God's plan, and through a process of elimination, pares the army down to 300 timid men---a force in no way sufficient to defeat these joined enemies. The story gets even crazier from there, as the warriors go out to fight with torches, pots, and trump
