2 Cities Church Podcast

Big Idea: Allow God to be a part of your decision-making process.  Genesis 13:1-18   1.  Don’t let greed determine your choices in life. Genesis 13:1-10   Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev-he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him. Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly...

Big Idea:   WHY?  Is the best and worst question you can ask in hard times. Genesis 12:10-20 WHY?  Is the best and worst question you can ask in hard times. 1. Why Famine is confusing.   Genesis 12: 10 Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land. 2. Why Fear is dangerous. Genesis 12: 11-16 It came about, when h...

Big Idea:   Faith demands one step into the unknown. Genesis 12:1-9 Faith demands one step into the unknown. 1. Faith demands stepping toward Jesus.   Genesis 12: 1-3 The Lord said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I wi...

Big Idea:   Your birth sets where you start, not how you finish in life . Genesis 10: 1-32 Your birth sets where you start, not how you finish in life. 1. The clan of Japheth was disbursed. Genesis 10: 1-5 These are the family records of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.  Japheth’s sons: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. Gomer’s sons: A...

Big Idea:   How to walk in your father’s footsteps. Genesis 9: 18-29 How to walk in your father’s footsteps. 1. We all have the same father. Genesis 9: 18-19 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth. 2. Every human father is flawed. Genesis 9:...

Big Idea:   Today is your 2nd chance for a better yesterday. Genesis 9: 1-17 Today is your 2nd chance for a better yesterday. 1. Sin infected everything. Genesis 9: 1-7 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea wi...

Big Idea:   Don’t mistake God’s silence for scorn. Genesis 8: 1-22 Don’t mistake God’s silence for scorn. 1. God remembers despite your silence. Genesis 8: 1-4 The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth. 2. His Spirit works behind the scenes. Gen...

Big Idea:   When He calls me, I will answer. Isaiah 6:1-8 When He calls me, I will answer. 1. Our Conviction.  Isaiah 6: 1-4 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.  Seraphim were standing above him; they each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they...

Big Idea:   God delights to deliver from the brink of danger. Genesis 7: 11-24 Has every family gone crazy? 1. Noah Gathered. Genesis 7: 11-17 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened, and the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty...

Big Idea:   Has every family gone crazy? Genesis 6: 1-8 Has every family gone crazy? 1. The perverted family tree. Genesis 6:1-4 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves. And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, becaus...

Big Idea:   God cares about the family tree of Mankind. Genesis 5: 1-32 God cares about the family tree of Mankind 1. God reaffirms creation. Genesis 5: 1-2 This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God; he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind. 2. Roots of the...

Big Idea:  Everyday you’re confronted with 2 choices… Genesis 4: 17-26 Everyday you’re confronted with 2 choices… 1. Two societies. Genesis 4: 15-22 Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son. Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael...

Big Idea:  The Easter sunrise can pierce into your darkest night! Revelations 21:1-6 The Easter sunrise can pierce into your darkest night! 1. Because the tomb is empty… Revelations 21: 1-2 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepa...

Big Idea:  The greatest freedom is won through the greatest fight. Genesis 4: 1-16 The greatest freedom is won through the greatest fight. 1. A fight between self and sin. Genesis 4: 1-7 The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.” She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of fl...

Big Idea:  When death comes knocking. Genesis 3: 20-24 When death comes knocking. 1. We lost Biology. Genesis 3: 20-21 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them. 2. We lost Infinity. Genesis 3: 22 The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he m...

Big Idea:  Paradise Lost: God in the Garden of Evil. Genesis 3: 8-19 Paradise Lost: God in the Garden of Evil. 1. When parents act like children. Genesis 3: 8-13 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where...

Big Idea:   Don’t follow the rules… Genesis 3: 1-7 Don’t follow the rules… 1. Focus on the relationship. Genesis 3: 1-3 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the...

Big Idea:   Only Heaven has perfect human harmony. Genesis 2:15-25 Only Heaven has perfect human harmony. 1. Heaven has rules. Genesis 2: 15–17 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, fo...

Big Idea:   Revival is prayed down…not worked up. Ezekiel 37:1-10 Revival is prayed down…not worked up. Ezekiel 37: 1–6 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by his Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry. Then he said to me, “...

Big Idea:  Heaven version 1.0. Genesis 2: 4-14 TGIS- Thank God it’s Saturday . 1. Heaven is eternal. Genesis 2: 4-7 These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the...

Big Idea:  TGIS- Thank God it’s Saturday. Genesis 2: 1-3 TGIS- Thank God it’s Saturday. 1. This day is different. Genesis 2: 1-2 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 2. This day is dedicated. Genesis 2: 3  God blessed the seve...

Big Idea:  We were made to rule and fellowship with God. Genesis 1:26-31 We were made to rule and fellowship with God. 1. We were never meant to do life alone. Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” So God creat...

Big Idea:  It’s time for Christianity to declare a cease-fire with science. Genesis 1:14-25 It’s time for Christianity to declare a cease-fire with science. 1. The stars shine in God’s summer sky. Genesis 1:14-19 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years. They will be lights in...

Big Idea:  The little questions lead to the biggest answers! Genesis 1:6-13 God’s Word brings a moment of light from an eternity of darkness. 1. Why is the sky blue? Genesis 1:6-8 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.” So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. God c...

Big Idea:  God’s Word brings a moment of light from an eternity of darkness. Genesis 1:1-5 God’s Word brings a moment of light from an eternity of darkness. 1. God’s Word brings order from chaos. Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was...