Main idea: Believing God who provides will ensure you pass your tests of faith. Consider God’s great tests (Genesis 22:1). Address your great loves (Genesis 22:1-2). Focus on great promises and provision (Genesis...

Main idea: Our ability to hope in trials, be confident in tribulations, and rejoice in suffering depends upon our understanding of God’s ultimate purpose in all our trials and tribulations. The recipients of ...

This is one of several stories complementing the Trusting God summer series.  Click here to r...

Main idea: When hostility comes, trust that you are being trained by the loving Father. God’s goal The race you're running Strip off every weight and sin....

He is good in all that He does (Psalm 119:65). Genesis 1:31: "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good." Acts 14:17: "and yet He did not leave Himself without witness,...

Main idea: Trust and worship the Lord, who is sovereign over every detail. “God’s providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.�...

Main Idea: Trust and be strengthened by the sovereign God. You are not hidden from Him; He has not disregarded you. Isaiah 40 contains five demonstrations of God’s sovereignty that should cause you to trust in, depend up...

Main Idea: Do battle with old sins by trusting God’s eternal grace Keep Watch on Old SinsListen to God’s Gracious InterventionAbimelechAbraham Matthew 10:27Proverbs 16:7...

Imagine a famed tightrope walker who stunned the crowds at the circus with his balancing dexterity. He invited all to come watch him walk the tightrope across a huge waterfall. They applauded with wild cheering as he skillfully crossed. He...

This story is one of several stories complementing the Trusting God summer series. Click here to read more!  “We got this.�...

This story is one of several stories complementing the Trusting God summer series. Click here to read more!  Analise Norton was excited to travel to&...

This is one of several stories complementing the Trusting God summer series.  Click here to read more!   “I thought I was just a ver...

Written by Champ Thornton, Illustrated by Rommel Ruiz Review by Mikaela Dursma Like most parents, our children have gone through phases of being scared at night. And, as we have all been children, we all understand that fear. ...

Main idea: Trust God’s message to escape God’s judgment. Trust God’s assessment of sin (Genesis 19:1-11,13). 2 Peter 2:7-8 Romans 3:23 Believe the news of judgment (Genesis 19:12-14) Luke 1...

Awe by Paul Tripp Review by Justin Holland Awe is, at its core, an examination of our hearts and their propensity to worship idols. Paul Tripp delves into this subject with descriptive, accessible prose that helps...

Main idea: Cultivate a righteous response to God’s righteous judgment. Pay attention to God’s judgment. Psalm 89:14 Proverbs 21:3 Jude 1:7 Pray for mercy from the Judge. Colossians 4:2-4 ...

Main idea: Drive doubt from your heart by trusting God’s personal and powerful promises. Recognize that God gets up close and personal. John 14:16 Remind yourself that nothing is too difficult...

Introduction Trusting God’s Grace in a Fallen World We continue tracing the theme of how God makes a people for Himself out of Abraham and Sarah through the miraculous birth of Isaac and the furthe...

Main idea: Wait on God who sees rather than putting your hope in false saviors. Which promises of God are you waiting on Him to fulfill in your life? Don’t put your hope in human ef...

Main idea: Put your heart at rest in the safety of God and his covenant promises Remember God’s Calling and Deliverance (Genesis 15:7)Engage in the covenant relationship (Genesis 15:8-11)See who really ful...

Main idea: Put your heart at rest in the safety of God and His covenant promises. Trust the Lord God to be among Abram’s heirs (v. 1-7). Romans 4:1-3 Galatians 3:7-9, 11 Trust the Lord Go...

Main idea: Trust God and His promises in the tests of abundance. Introduction Ecclesiastes 5:10-11Proverbs 30:8-9Matthew 6:241 Timothy 6:17-19 Trust ...

If you've read the book review by Clyde Sousa (age 13) you might be asking, why is a Christian church reviewing a Greek myth book? How do myths about f...

What could make someone live the rest of their life with hope and confidence? And, what could do that in the face of war, national economic meltdown, cancer, divorce, or religious persecution? It’s a word we often hear in the Bible,...

Jerry Bridges begins his book Transforming Grace by claiming that perhaps God’s grace is one of the least understood doctrines in Christianity. Going into reading this book, I believed his assertion to be wrong, that my knowledge o...

Introduction Trusting God’s Grace in a Fallen World We are moving into the main section of Genesis where we see God making a people for Himself from Abram. Genesis 1-11 gave us the introduction to ...

Big idea: Humbly turn to God in faith and gratitude for the mercy and grace in the Noahic covenant. ...

Main idea: Face up to God’s judgment on sin and turn to Him for grace. The biggest judgments remaining: Daniel 12:2-3Revelation Consider God’s judgment on unrestrained evil action...

Romans 9:19–29 continues Paul argument that God is merciful to whomever he chooses and that God hardens whomever he chooses. Human beings need to remember their lowly state before God and acknowledge that he is the one who holds us in his hands,...

Introduction Trusting God’s Grace in a Fallen World As we enter into the story of the flood and the tower of Babel in Genesis, we continue to see how wicked and rebellious humanity is. Despite this...

Main idea: Trust God for grace as we live in a painful, sin-cursed world.  In the midst of conflict and hostility, trust in Jesus who crushes the head of the serpent. (v. 14-15)Revelation 12:1-121 Corinthians 15:...

Renounce sinful responses to guilt and humbly turn to God who pursues you. Luke 19:10 Jesus says “The son of man came to seek and save the lost.” Renounce the sinful responses to guilt: Pretending it doesn’t exist, Hidi...

Main idea: Falling for Satan’s lies leaves us guilty, ashamed and condemned and only God’s grace can restore us. Be watchful for the cunning of Satan John 8:44 Revelation 12:9 Ephesians 6:1...

Introduction Trusting God’s Grace in a Fallen World We saw in Genesis 1-2 the glory of God at creation. He created a very good heavens and earth where he chose to dwell with the man and woman he cr...

Our total depravity makes it impossible for us to seek God and walk in his ways. We need God to make us alive spiritually through his grace. God chooses to make people alive, calling them to salvation in an effectual way....

We often forget how transcendent God is, and try to think of him and related him as if he was on our level. We need to see God as high and lifted up and our hopelessness before him, unless he makes a way for our salvation. ...

Main idea: Get your thinking straight about God’s creation of His Kingdom Examine God’s Creation Exalt the glory of the King Establish your life under His kingship Automated ...

Main idea: God created everything! Worship the Creator God, who is Father, Son and Spirit, for His goodness and greatness. Worship the Creator God: He is great and good! (v. 1) Isaiah 45:7-8, 18...

Introduction It is our privilege and joy to study God’s Word together. God reveals himself to us through his Word so that we can know, love, worship and obey him! Genesis is the first of five books we call ...