Genesis

I wonder if you remember where you were on August 30, 2020. Besides being one of my children’s birthdays, although it’s not hard to land on one of their birthdays, it’s also the day that we began studying from the pulpit the book of Genesis, almost two years ago. I know some of you were…

O Lord, Your law is perfect; use it now to revive our souls. Your testimony is sure; use it now to make wise the simple. Your precepts are right; use them now to rejoice the heart. Your commandment is pure; use it to enlighten the eyes. Your rules, O Lord, are true and righteous altogether….

Almighty God, grant that as You shine on us by Your Word that we may not be blind, staring into the sun, that we may not seek darkness in the middle of the day, but may we be awakened by Your words, stirred up more and more to fear You, to worship You, to obey…

O Lord, we ask now that You give us grace; we need grace as we come to the reading and preaching of Your Word. I need Your grace that I would speak only what is true, what is edifying. Give me humility in myself and absolute confidence in Your Word. Give to all these Your…

Our Father in heaven, as we come to Your Word now we pray that You would give us ears to hear, that the seed of Your Word would not fall on hard soil, but would find root in good soil, it would spring up and bear fruit. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. Our Scripture…

In the unfolding story of your life, who are the most important actors? Or to ask the question a different way, who are the two agents most responsible for who you are and what your life is like? The answer, not surprisingly, you and God. The two agents most responsible for who you are and…

We come this morning to Genesis chapter 39 as we con with our series we’ve been in for some time now, and Lord willing we will make our way through the end of Genesis by the time we get to a summer break. Genesis chapter 39. I’ll be reading all 23 verses. “Now Joseph had…

Our gracious God, we pray once again coming not of mere habit or custom, but asking genuinely from our hearts that You would help us. I need Your help as a preacher that I might decrease and Christ would increase. We need Your help as Your people that we would have ears to hear, that…

Our Father in heaven, we do not want to be our own interpreters, either of Your Word or of our own experiences, and so come to Your Word that You might teach us, that You might open Your most hallowed lips, and give us ears to hear, so that You would interpret our own lives,…

Father in heaven, help us now once again as we come to Your Word. We bow before You, not simply because we think this is how sermons begin but because we really need Your help. I need Your help if I’m to speak clearly and humbly and with power and unction from on high, and…