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God Who Reveals

Exodus 34 - Unlike our made up gods, that we tell what to do and what they should be like, God has told us who He is. He has not left us living in darkness and left to guess what He is like. This is why the Scripture is such a treasure. When we understand God is who He says He is, we can see all our false narratives dealt with. We NEED a God who reveals who He is.

Taking it to Jesus - Jesus reveals G...

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God THE Standard

Exodus 20 - God, after His rescue of His people, gives to them a standard that they are to live by. They are to reflect The One who IS the standard. The law was given to reflect the law giver. When we reject these ways, we not only reject God, we actually deny the way we were made to live. In our “breaking” of the law, we tell the Law-giver that we know better and have another way to live. Everythi...

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God Who Is, God Who Delivers

Exodus 3 - Moses’ life is one of ups and downs, rising and falling. In the midst of it all, God reveals Himself to Moses in a bush! What God reveals in that encounter is that He is the God who IS! He has no beginning. He has always been. He simply “Is.” Everyone else can point to a time when they WERE NOT, but NOT God. This matters because if God did have a creator of His own, we’d be l...

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God Who is There

Genesis 50:19-21 - Joseph’s story is telling, not just about Joseph’s strength, but of a God who is with Joseph in trial and hurt and suffering. He’s not just present with him, but also working in it. God doesn’t need perfect situations to shape us. God doesn’t need perfect people, either. The enemy can use suffering to cause us to hate and distrust God, but in our looking at Christ, we know that G...

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God Who Provides

Genesis 22 - Looking at the story of Abraham and Isaac. God doesn’t compete with our idols or with anything that we might love more than Him. He knows that there is nothing in this life, even the things He has blessed us with, that will give us what we need. God is our source of life and He has provided HIMSELF to us.

Isaac was a gift to Abraham and Sarah, but he was not to be their everything. God ...

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God Who Calls

Genesis 12 - God initiated with Abraham. He calls people, invites people, finds people. Abraham was not looking for God, but God interrupted Abraham. When God called, Abraham believed God. Faith was the response. When we are called, will we walk with Him?
In God’s call, the response is faith. Faith is belief PLUS action. We’ve believed God, so we act accordingly. Abraham was a picture of that process.

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God Who Saves

Genesis 6-9 - Looking at Noah’s story... a man living among others in a world that had turned to evil in every way. God asked Noah to trust Him and in doing so, Noah and his family would be saved. God established a rescue plan, NOT Noah. God saves, but He does it His way. Had Noah said, “I’ll do it some other way,” Noah would have been lost. The story of Noah is a pointer to faith coming before obedie...

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God of His Word, God Who Punishes Sin, God Who Covers

Genesis 2:15-3:21 - God establishes that when He makes a promise or declaration, He does stick to it. When He declares that our decisions have consequences tied to them, His Word is true. We need to hear these words and takes them seriously. When sin shows up, we learn that God cannot be around sin (and since sin marks people in the garden), we are removed from ...

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God of Order, God of Presence

Genesis 1-2 - God sets the functions of time, weather, food, seasons, reproduction, human purpose, and rest. So often we get hung up on HOW these things started, but the bigger picture of Genesis is WHY. God gave function to everything INCLUDING humans. We were created for community (God and others), meaning (reflecting God and work), and with individual freedom (any fruit, just not on...

2020 - Crappy Year, Good God (Psalm 120:1-7)

There are playlists we like to pull out for travel.  Sometimes we spend a few hours creating the "perfect" playlist.  They remind us of vacations before, long drives, and great destinations.  God uses the Psalms to help us a we journey toward Him.  The Psalms are a place of mourning, questioning what we are seeing, and simple turns back to God in the midst of struggle and sorrow.

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Together Apart? Not in the Kingdom.
Christmas Eve Service

"God with us" means we will NEVER be apart again.  "God with us" was often spoken in the face of the crowd's rejection.  "God with us" was often the only comfort the church could find in intense moments of persecution.  "God with us" even if our own family forsakes us.

The nearness of God IS how we sustain living in a day and age when we are ...