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Our Eyes Look to the Lord Our God
Genesis Church - Sermons - June 10, 2024 02:58 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe situation for the community of faith in Psalm 123 is difficult and bleak. They are a people scorned and oppressed. They would like their God to show up with fire from heaven and devour their enemies, but so far His vengeance hasn’t happened. They need a song reminding them of God’s sovereign ...
Let Us Go To The House Of The Lord
Genesis Church - Sermons - June 03, 2024 02:07 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings“I was glad when they said to me, ‘Let us go to the house of the Lord!’” I remember my parents quoting this almost every Sunday as my sister and I were fighting in the car on the way to church. Psalm 122 is a Psalm of joy anticipating the experience of entering Jerusalem with the people of God. ...
My Help Comes From The Lord
Genesis Church - Sermons - May 27, 2024 02:21 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDon’t you love driving in the mountains? There is something majestic about terrain that is not, well, Illinois flat. Whether driving through the Rockies, Smokies, or our more hill-shaped Ozarks, there is always beauty to behold. On the other hand, a trip through hilly mountainous terrain on foot ...
Deliver Me
Genesis Church - Sermons - May 20, 2024 02:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis morning we will look at Psalm 120, the first Psalm of Ascent, a song from sojourners who are far away from home, who are being harassed and suffering. Yet, they know their God is the source of hope and peace that fills their longings. They are beginning a journey to meet Him face to face.
Preheat the Oven
Genesis Church - Sermons - May 13, 2024 02:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday closes out the series, The Recipe, on our vision for making disciples. Over the past weeks, we revealed 10 ingredients that we hope to “bake” in to the lives of people and we have looked at the different types of people we are called to disciple. We have created a grid for disciple making t...
To Our Neighbors and To The Nations
Genesis Church - Sermons - May 06, 2024 02:23 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWith only a couple weeks left in our series, The Recipe, on our task of making disciples, this morning we come back to where we began—with Jesus’ commission to make disciples of all nations. We believe that Christ has entrusted us, Genesis Church, with the commission to make disciples here in Eu...
Witness
Genesis Church - Sermons - April 29, 2024 02:16 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe come to the last of the ten ingredients in our recipe for making disciples, - the ingredient of witness. To be a disciple of Jesus is to be an ambassador sent to our world as a representative of Jesus’ Kingdom to proclaim His message of reconciliation. Love for neighbor includes the desire to...
Mission and Ministry
Genesis Church - Sermons - April 21, 2024 22:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Gospel has an engine that propels disciples out as missionaries. We see this clearly in Jesus’ ministry with His disciples. He invested in their lives, taught them the truths of the Gospel, and did a lot of ministry with them. This was preparation, as Jesus then calls them to lift their eyes ...
Theological Formation
Genesis Church - Sermons - April 15, 2024 02:10 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTheology matters—it matters greatly. What we believe about God, Jesus, ourselves, and redemption will show up in the way we live our lives. It is God’s design that the church teach people the great truths about God so that people will authentically worship God, standing in awe of His person and ...
Holiness
Genesis Church - Sermons - April 07, 2024 20:03 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs we continue our series on the ingredients necessary for making disciples, this morning we will share the importance of holiness. The concept of holiness, or being holy, is a difficult concept for us; yet, this is actually the ingredient that provides the flavor for the Christian life. The pri...
Easter Shaped Disciples
Genesis Church - Sermons - April 01, 2024 02:28 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday we celebrate the pivotal and climactic moment for all of history, as the Son of God was delivered over to sinful people who condemned the innocent Savior to death on a cross. Jesus submitted Himself to the divine purpose for our salvation, laying down His rights and life for us. But that is...
Water and Light
Genesis Church - Sermons - March 25, 2024 02:15 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDarin Slater fills in for Mike Hubbard who was ill.
Community
Genesis Church - Sermons - March 18, 2024 02:48 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn the Scriptures, discipleship is never an individual event, it is a team sport. In fact, let’s just state that maybe the biggest obstacle to authentic discipleship in our culture is our rugged individualism. Yet, God designed this Christian life thing to be done in community, a group of “one an...
Body Life
Genesis Church - Sermons - March 11, 2024 02:32 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsGod’s means for making disciples is the local church. We live in a time when we have access to all the teaching and content of Christianity on a device, without the mess and time commitment of going to church every Sunday. As a result, many people are disconnecting from their churches and finding...
The Disciplines of Our Walk
Genesis Church - Sermons - March 04, 2024 00:36 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAny meaningful goal will take effort and discipline. In most cases, long term goals will require dedication to rhythms of intentional effort. Following Jesus is really no different. Growth in the Christian life does require our dedication to rhythms and practices called the spiritual disciplines....
The Disciplines of the Word
Genesis Church - Sermons - February 26, 2024 00:35 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPsalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible. It’s made up of 22 different stanzas with 8 verses in each stanza. All of the Chapter is devoted to praising God for His revealed word. It’s a song of praise for God’s love for us as shown through the pages of scripture. It’s a Psalm that encourages ...
Stewardship
Genesis Church - Sermons - February 19, 2024 03:55 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAt Genesis we sing a song that goes, “My one comfort both in life and death is that I am not my own.” This is the essence of stewardship, and the truth that all of our life, from top to bottom, belongs to God, is His, and our call is to deny ourselves, pick up our cross, and follow Him in everyth...
Passion
Genesis Church - Sermons - February 12, 2024 03:33 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIt’s Valentine’s week, so no better topic than to talk about love. What we love defines us, shapes our lives, and we are continually being shaped by the objects of our affections. So, it should not surprise us that the primary call in making and becoming disciples is a command to love. This is s...
Gospel Fluency
Genesis Church - Sermons - February 05, 2024 03:07 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs we continue our series on Genesis Church’s recipe for making disciples, this morning we begin explaining the key ingredients … and the first and most important ingredient is Gospel clarity and fluency. Knowing and believing the Gospel is central to our journey of becoming disciples—followers ...
The Recipe
Genesis Church - Sermons - January 29, 2024 00:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat is a disciple and how are they made? If Jesus’ call to each person is to be a disciple and His commission to His church is to make disciples, we had better know what this means. We might learn about disciple making by thinking about the perfect chocolate chip cookie. First of all, no way a ...
On a Mission from God
Genesis Church - Sermons - January 21, 2024 23:45 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJesus’ parting words to His followers gave their marching orders: to go and make disciples. While we may struggle to understand all the implications of this call, these men knew exactly what Jesus was commanding. They had spent over three years with Jesus as He invested in their lives making them...
How to Face a Rapidly Changing World
Genesis Church - Sermons - January 07, 2024 23:44 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCan you believe how rapidly our world is changing? We witnessed how quickly the world can be paralyzed with the threat of a global pandemic. Your savings can be wiped out almost overnight with a stock market crash. Advancing technology is changing every industry, sometimes for good, sometimes… no...
Sole Mates In Bethlehem
Genesis Church - Sermons - December 31, 2023 23:43 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs we close out 2023, we also come to the end of our Hallmark Christmas Story. Boaz, in response to Ruth’s proposal, seeks out the closer relative to Elimelech and his deceased sons. He isn’t going to let another 24 hours pass before he has Ruth’s future secured. Will the budding romance between...
Small Town Proposal
Genesis Church - Sermons - December 17, 2023 23:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs we continue in Ruth 3 this morning, the focus of our story is an unusual proposal. Boaz’s kindness and attention spurns an interesting plan initiated by Naomi to be carried out by Ruth. In the previous chapter we were introduced to Boaz, a great guy who could marry Ruth and rescue the family. ...
Holiday Harvest
Genesis Church - Sermons - December 11, 2023 03:13 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAccording to the Law, the Hebrews were to leave the edge rows of their fields for the poor. This act revealed that they knew God was the giver of the harvest and that they were God’s representatives to the poor. In our passage today, as Ruth goes and gathers wheat, she catches Boaz’s attention an...
A Very Mara Christmas
Genesis Church - Sermons - December 04, 2023 03:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDo you like sad stories? The start of Ruth is set in a difficult period of history and begins with really hard circumstances for two women. Oppression of God’s people, a famine, tragic deaths of providers all lead to a season of bitterness and darkness. But, this sad story turns to one of redemp...
Who Is Like You?
Genesis Church - Sermons - November 27, 2023 03:53 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMicah ends His prophetic book by raising the question embedded in his name: Who is like Yahweh? The answer is the only source of hope for people who have fallen, broken lives in a fallen, broken world. The True and Living God is full of grace and forgiveness – He will not stay angry forever, rat...
Lament and Repent
Genesis Church - Sermons - November 20, 2023 03:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDuring the final years of Micah’s ministry, Assyria is ripping through the northern portions of the land leaving Israel devastated and in bondage. Micah helps God’s people realize that there was a connection between their sinful disobedience and the judgment of God in their lives. The consequence...
The Way Forward
Genesis Church - Sermons - November 13, 2023 03:50 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIt is a simple yet complex question: “What does the Lord require of you?” This is a question many people want answered. People are spiritual and religious and, for the most part, they want their leaders and gurus to give them the rituals and activities necessary for acceptance by God. The Jews in...
O Little Town
Genesis Church - Sermons - November 06, 2023 03:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIt was really just a small, redneck town. Not a whole lot there— just a small shepherding village about six miles from Jerusalem. But the small village of Bethlehem was the birthplace of King David. In one of the clearest prophecies about the coming of Jesus, Micah predicts that the little sheph...
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