Month: October 2008

Painting by Richard Hook Read the Sermon:

Since studying Abram and Sarai’s story, I feel challenged to develop more faith. I want to embrace a vision of God as “God of the impossible.” It is time to allow God to fully be who He is. The call this week for Abram in Genesis 17 is a call to action as God instructed…

What does lordship mean to you? Often we think if we simply submit to God that means God is Lord. Lordship, then, is action on our part. There is certainly truth in that, but lordship encompasses so much more. Saying God is Lord means understanding the power of God to bring life out of nothing…

This week has been a week of worry for our nation as we have watched a wildly fluctuating stock market never really settle down. Worldwide economic anxiety is the order of the day, say the news reporters. What timing for this week’s message because Abram worries in Genesis 15:1-18. He worries about the truth of…

Abram is known as a man of great faith. Abram’s focus was more on worship of God than on what he received. Last week we saw the results of Abram’s trust in God when he generously gave his nephew, Lot, what he could have claimed for himself. God seemed to be training Abram about the…