How to Mend A Broken Heart
February 2, 2020. How to Mend a Broken Heart. 6:1 Hear what the Lord says:Arise, plead your case before the mountains,and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,and you enduring foundations of the earth,for the Lord has an indictment against his people,and he will contend with Israel. 3 “O my people, what have I done to you?How have I wearied you? Answer me! 4 For I brought you up from the land of Egyptand redeemed you…
Fixed Focus: Steps to Keep a Fixed Focus on God
January 26, 2020. Fixed Focus: Steps to Keep a Fixed Focus on God. 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at…
Fixed Focus: Reasons We Lose Our Focus
Sunday January 19, 2020. Fixed Focus: Reasons We Lose Our Focus. 25 Let your eyes look directly forward,and your gaze be straight before you. 26 Ponder the path of your feet;then all your ways will be sure. 27 Do not swerve to the right or to the left;turn your foot away from evil. (ESV)
The Redemption of Scrooge: The Hope of Christmas Future
Sunday December 22, 2019. The Redemption of Scrooge: The Hope of Christmas Future. 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captivesand recovering of sight to the blind,to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (ESV)
The Redemption of Scrooge: The Life of Christmas Present
Sunday December 15, 2019. The Redemption of Scrooge: The Life of Christmas Present – Look Upon Me. 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” 3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem…
A Christmas Musical Celebration
A Christmas Musical Celebration, Sunday December 8. The Genesis Chancel Choir, Instrumental Ensemble and Friends presented a Christmas Musical Celebration, arranged and directed by our very talented Music Director, Marla Ham. The musical presentation is not available for download.
The Redemption of Scrooge: Bah! Humbug! Making Change
Sunday December 1, 2019. The Redemption of Scrooge: Bah! Humbug! Making Change. 6 For to us a child is born,to us a son is given;and the government shall be upon his shoulder,and his name shall be calledWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peacethere will be no end,on the throne of David and over his kingdom,to establish it and to uphold itwith justice and with righteousnessfrom this time forth and forevermore.The zeal…
Rediscovering Jesus: Jesus Said Follow Me
Sunday November 24, 2019. Rediscovering Jesus: Jesus Said Follow Me. 16 Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” 18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him. (ESV)
Rediscovering Jesus: A Life in Balance
Sunday November 17, 2019. Rediscovering Jesus: A Life in Balance. 35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 36 And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 37 and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” 38 And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that…
Rediscovering Jesus: Jesus is More Than a Celebrity
November 10, 2019. Rediscovering Jesus: Jesus is More Than a Celebrity. 6:1 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of…
Rediscovering Jesus: The Personal Encounter
November 3, 2019. Rediscovering Jesus: The Personal Encounter. – 25 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 26 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 27 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 28 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”…
Approaching God
October 27, 2019 Approaching God. – 9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of…
Praying with Persistence
Sunday October 20, 2019. Praying with Persistence. – 18:1 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear…
A Sure Foundation
October 13, 2019. A Sure Foundation- 8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 The saying is trustworthy, for:If we have died with him, we will also live…