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2024-07-07 Avoid the Detour to Idolatry
July 08, 2024 01:14 - 66.9 MB2024-07-07 Avoid the Detour to Idolatry by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 5:18-21 18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Chri...
2024-06-30 Let There Be Light
June 30, 2024 22:53 - 26.1 MB2024-06-30 Let There Be Light by Shane O'Hara Scripture: Genesis 1:1-3 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ...
2024-06-16 Avoid the Detour of Discounting God’s Testimony
June 16, 2024 23:23 - 41.4 MB2024-06-16 Avoid the Detour of Discounting God’s Testimony by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 5:6-12 6 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testim...
2024-06-09 Avoid the Detour of Burden
June 09, 2024 15:56 - 35.5 MB2024-06-09 Avoid the Detour of Burden Scripture Reference: 1 John 5:1-5 by Pastor Chris Berg 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is God's Messiah has become a child of God. And if we love God, our Father, we will love his other children too. 2 How do we know that we love God's children? We know it when we love God and we do what he tells us to do. 3 Because, if we really love God, we will obey his commands. And those commands are not difficult for us to obey. 4 Because we have become God's...
2024-06-02 Avoid The Detour Of Fear
June 02, 2024 18:53 - 42 MB2024-06-02 Avoid The Detour Of Fear by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 4:7-21 7 My friends, we should all love each other. It is God who makes us able to love other people. Everyone who loves other people has become a child of God. That person knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love other people does not know God. We know this because God's own nature is love. 9 This is how God showed that he loves us: He sent his only Son to come and live in the world. He did that so that we ...
2024-05-26 Avoid the Detour of False Teaching
May 26, 2024 18:35 - 54.2 MB2024-05-26 Avoid the Detour of False Teaching by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 4:1-6 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God:every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was ...
2024-05-19 Avoid the Detour of Selfishness
May 21, 2024 03:00 - 44 MB2024-05-19 Avoid the Detour of Selfishness by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:16-24 16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure ...
2024-05-12 Avoid The Detour Of Envy
May 12, 2024 18:58 - 40 MB2024-05-12 Avoid The Detour Of Envy by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:10-15 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? ...
2024-05-05 Redeeming The Time
May 06, 2024 15:20 - 31.9 MB2024-05-05 Redeeming The Time by Seth Carroll Scripture Reference: Ecclesiastes 1-3 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 6 The wind blows...
2024-04-28 Avoid the Detour of Lawlessness
April 29, 2024 03:32 - 51.3 MB2024-04-28 Avoid the Detour of Lawlessness by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 3:4-10 4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the...
2024-04-21 Don't Detour Into Impurity
April 22, 2024 22:24 - 53.5 MB2024-04-21 Don't Detour Into Impurity by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:28-3:3 28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. 3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not...
2024-04-14 Don’t Be Detoured By Defectors
April 22, 2024 03:29 - 62.4 MB2024-04-14 Don’t Be Detoured By Defectors by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:18-27 18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One...
2024-03-31 I AM The Resurrection and The Life
April 01, 2024 00:02 - 44.5 MB2024-03-31 I AM The Resurrection and The Life by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: John 11:26-27 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
2024-03-24 Avoid The Detour Of This World
March 28, 2024 02:43 - 37.3 MB2024-03-24 Avoid The Detour Of This World by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 2:12-17 12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake. 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. 14 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning...
2024-03-17 Avoid The Detour of Hate
March 17, 2024 17:46 - 48.5 MB2024-03-17 Avoid The Detour of Hate by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 2:3-11 3 And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. 6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. A New Commandm...
2024-03-10 Avoid The Detour of Sin
March 11, 2024 17:01 - 49.3 MB2024-03-10 Avoid The Detour of Sin by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 John 1:5-2:2 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin....
2024-03-03 The Reality of Joyful Fellowship Forever
March 04, 2024 04:26 - 43 MB2024-03-03 The Reality of Joyful Fellowship Forever by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: 1 John 1:1-4 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we procla...
2024-02-25 On The Road Again
February 25, 2024 22:36 - 33.8 MB2024-02-25 On The Road Again by Steve Hudson Scripture Reference: Luke 24:13-35 13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 16 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 17 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each ot...
2024-02-18 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 2
February 21, 2024 03:12 - 47.9 MB2024-02-18 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 2 by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:10-33, 36:8-38 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the o...
2024-02-11 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 1
February 11, 2024 20:30 - 42.6 MB2024-02-11 Lesson From The Tabernacle - Part 1 by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:10-33, 36:8-38 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it. 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the o...
2024-02-04 In Their Midst?
February 04, 2024 19:58 - 39.4 MB2024-02-04 In Their Midst? by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 25:1-9 25 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, 5 tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood, 6 oil for the lamps, spi...
2024-01-28 Ratifying The Covenant
January 28, 2024 16:50 - 50.1 MB2024-01-28 Ratifying The Covenant by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 24:1-8, 32:1-35 1 Then the Lord instructed Moses: “Come up here to me, and bring along Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders. All of you must worship from a distance. 2 Only Moses is allowed to come near to the Lord. The others must not come near, and none of the other people are allowed to climb up the mountain with him.” 3 Then Moses went down to the people and repeated all the instructions an...
2024-01-21 The Ten Commandments
January 21, 2024 23:49 - 49.9 MB2024-01-21 The Ten Commandments by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture: Exodus 20:1-18 The Ten Commandments 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow do...
2024-01-14 A Covenant Offered
January 14, 2024 19:25 - 43.3 MB2024-01-14 A Covenant Offered by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 19:1-20:21 19 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of...
2024-01-07 A Theological Review of Exodus
January 08, 2024 23:35 - 53.3 MB2024-01-07 A Theological Review of Exodus by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 5:1-2 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
2023-01-07 A Theological Review of Exodus
January 08, 2024 23:35 - 53.3 MB2023-01-07 A Theological Review of Exodus by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 5:1-2 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
2023-12-31 Three Roles in Evangelism
December 31, 2023 16:45 - 41.7 MB2023-12-31 Three Roles in Evangelism by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: John 4:31-38 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I t...
2023-12-24 The Song of Simeon
December 24, 2023 20:04 - 39.2 MB2023-12-24 The Song of Simeon by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Luke 2:29-32 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
2023-12-17 Christmas Devotional - Joy To The World
December 17, 2023 16:38 - 13 MB2023-12-17 Christmas Devotional - Joy To The World by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Luke 2:1-20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and ...
2023-12-10 Song of the Angels
December 10, 2023 19:55 - 41.8 MB2023-12-10 Song of the Angels by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Luke 2:1-20 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all the people were on their way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4 Now Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was...
2023-12-03 Mary’s Magnificat
December 04, 2023 00:32 - 43.2 MB2023-12-03 Mary’s Magnificat by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Luke 1:46-55 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 49 for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. 50 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. 51 He has shown strengt...
2023-11-26 I Am The Door of the Sheep
November 26, 2023 23:21 - 49.7 MB2023-11-26 I Am The Door of the Sheep by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: John 10:7 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
2023-11-19 Give Thanks In Everything?!
November 19, 2023 16:42 - 15.9 MB2023-11-19 Give Thanks In Everything?! by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
2023-11-12 Tested
November 12, 2023 23:39 - 39.2 MB2023-11-12 Tested by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 15:22-17:7 22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.[b] 24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,[c] and...
2023-11-05 Moses' Song
November 06, 2023 03:45 - 31.9 MB2023-11-05 Moses' Song by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 15:1-18 15 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider[a] he has thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. 4 “Phara...
2023-10-29 Unleavened Bread
November 01, 2023 18:44 - 74.8 MB2023-10-29 Unleavened Bread by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 13:1-16 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the firstborn of every womb among the sons of Israel, among people and animals alike; it belongs to Me.” 3 And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you departed from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the Lord brought you out from this place. And nothing with yeast shall be eaten. 4 On this day ...
2023-10-22 The Last Plague
October 22, 2023 22:30 - 39.3 MB2023-10-22 The Last Plague by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 11:1-12:51 Now the Lord said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will assuredly drive you out from here completely. 2 Speak now so that the people hear, that each man is to ask of his neighbor, and each woman of her neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.” 3 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the...
2023-10-15 So The World Will Know
October 15, 2023 18:43 - 44.4 MB2023-10-15 So The World Will Know by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus Chapters 7-10 7:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. The...
2023-10-08 I AM the LORD
October 09, 2023 00:03 - 45.8 MB2023-10-08 I AM the LORD by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 6:1-8 6:1 But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to gi...
2023-10-01 A Rough Start
October 01, 2023 15:46 - 41.8 MB2023-10-01 A Rough Start by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 4:18 to 7:7 4:18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egyp...
2023-09-24 Moses, Excuses Denied
September 24, 2023 22:00 - 42.8 MB2023-09-24 Moses, Excuses Denied by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 3:1-4:17 Moses and the Burning Bush 3 One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. 3 “This is amazing,” Moses sa...
2023-09-17 From Blessed to Bondage
September 17, 2023 18:24 - 24.7 MB2023-09-17 From Blessed to Bondage by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Exodus 1:1-2:25 1-1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. 7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and inc...
2023-09-10 Our Vision for Growth
September 11, 2023 02:38 - 31.9 MB2023-09-10 Our Vision for Growth by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Acts 2:42-47 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And da...
2023-09-03 Vision - Worship
September 03, 2023 19:30 - 26.1 MB2023-09-03 Vision - Worship by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Acts 2:42-47 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by...
2023-08-27 Vision - Fellowship
August 28, 2023 02:37 - 25.4 MB2023-08-27 Vision - Fellowship by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Acts 2:42-47 42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all the believers were together and had all things in common; 45 and they would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that anyo...
2023-08-20 Our Vision For Teaching
August 20, 2023 21:15 - 29.9 MB2023-08-20 Our Vision For Teaching by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Acts 2:42-47 42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles. 44 And all the believers were together and had all things in common; 45 and they would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that ...
2023-08-13 My Trials For His Purpose - Part 2
August 13, 2023 20:33 - 30.9 MB2023-08-13 My Trials For His Purpose - Part 2 by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Genesis 42-47 8 But Joseph had recognized his brothers, although they did not recognize him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to look at the undefended parts of our land.” 10 And they said to him, “No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. 11 We are all sons of one man; we are honest men, your servants are not spies.”
2023-08-06 My Trials For God's Purpose
August 06, 2023 20:48 - 33.2 MB2023-08-06 My Trials For God's Purpose by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Genesis 37 37 So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner. 2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing. 3 Jacob loved J...
2023-07-30 Becoming Israel
July 30, 2023 22:39 - 30.2 MB2023-07-30 Becoming Israel by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Genesis 28-33 13 At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. 14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the famili...
2023-07-23 God’s Blessing, My Way!
July 30, 2023 21:13 - 27 MB2023-07-23 God’s Blessing, My Way! by Pastor Chris Berg Scripture Reference: Genesis 25-28 27 As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home. 28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 One day when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry. 30 Esau said to Jacob, “I’m starved! Give me some of t...