Redeemer Bible Church Sermon Audio

Genesis 25 | If you experienced any kind of sibling rivalry growing up, I'm willing to bet it doesn't hold a candle to Jacob and Esau. These twin boys were born to Isaac and Rebekah, and from the womb, they would war with one another.  As they grew, some circumstances led to the intensity of their rivalry as well. What was this all about? What was God doing in and through the lives of these twins?...

Genesis 24 | The promised son has come, the promised family is growing, the promised nation is on the rise. This week we watch as God unites Isaac with his wife, Rebekah. What is especially interesting is how God does it and who He uses to find a wife for Isaac. We are going to watch a faithful, unnamed servant of Abraham fulfill one of the most important roles a dad could ever entrust to another....

Genesis 22 | We hate uncertainty. Uncertainty can be disorienting, confusing, and discouraging. We long for clarity! We long for certainty! But where then, if everything is clear, easy, and certain, is faith? Sometimes God takes us down a path where we know the destination, but we have no idea how we're going to get there. Even worse, it can sometimes feel like obeying God will take us further fro...

Genesis 21:1-7 | At times believing what God has promised can be hard. What's often even harder, though, is trusting Him for when that promise will come to pass. For Abraham and Sarah, they have been waiting on a promise. And waiting... And waiting... But sure enough, this week we see that God will always do what He says when He says it is best.   So how about you? What promises are you waiting on...

Genesis 20:1-18 | Ever done something you shouldn’t have done? And then ever done it again? We all know those things we should have handled differently, and then we know the feeling when we make that same mistake twice. This week we watch as Abraham repeats a mistake he made in the past. What’s so interesting to see is how God meets Abraham’s sin with total unmerited favor. What do we have to lear...

Genesis 19:1-38 | Genesis 19 could come with a warning like "This message is rated R for violent and sexual content." There are a few chapters of the Bible that bring out the complete and utter depravity of the human condition apart from a Savior and this is one of them. In this chapter, we see four important things we must understand: Wickedness, Wrath, Mercy, and Judgment. We will watch as God's...

Genesis 14:1-14 | How do we stay grounded in a world unhinged from the truth? How do we find peace when life seems unsteady? What hope awaits the faithful believer? Is there a better way to live as Christians than what has become “typical” in American Christian circles? These are questions believers need to know in a postmodern culture that screams truth is relative. It appears that at every turn...

James 1:2-4 | Make the choice right now.   Right now. Before 2021 even begins, make a conscious decision: I will choose joy in whatever comes. It's easy to choose joy when all is well, it's harder to choose joy when things aren't. But we can be joyful in all things because the trials and troubles of life are God's time-worn path to an enduring, growing, thriving faith. If 2020 taught us nothing el...

Philippians 3:20 | Have you ever been homesick? You know what that feels like. The pit in your stomach, the weight in your chest, the longing to be back with who you know and what you know. As Christians, we live with a sense of homesickness. We want to be with Jesus. And yet, ours is hope-filled homesickness. Why? Because we are people living between the Christmas coming of Jesus and the second c...

Genesis 17:15-18:15 | Waiting.... waiting.... waiting....   Even just seeing the word might stress some of us out. Waiting! I don't know many people who would say they really love to wait. Think about being put on hold during a phone call. Think about the days of dial-up. Think about traffic or waiting in long lines at the store. I'm guessing most (if not all) of these things don't bring happy and...

Genesis 16:1-17:14 | There is a saying we use when we feel the time has come for us to get something done ourselves: "I'm taking matters into my own hands." Often, we say this when someone else who was responsible isn't doing things as quickly as we would like, but what happens if we do this with God? Are there times we take things into our own hands that God never asked us to take? And what tends...

Genesis 15:1-21 | For the fourth time God will promise Abram that his descendants will be too many to count. Four times God has been saying it without Abram seeing it. Finally, Abram basically says, "Can you prove it? How do I know this?" God delivers. In Genesis 15, God delivers with what we can look at as a really bizarre and bloody scene, and yet what God is communicating is one of the most pow...

Genesis 13:1-14:24 | Genesis 14 introduces a rather mysterious yet important character throughout the Bible. His name is Melchizedek, and well, we really don't know that much about him. But he's mentioned again in Psalm 110, and then again in Hebrews 7 where he is connected to Jesus. In fact, we are told that Jesus is a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. So who is this mysterious figure i...

Romans 5-6 | We took a break from our Genesis series to spend time in Romans 5 + 6. We'll get back to Genesis next week!

Genesis 12:1-20 | It's hard to leave places you know to go to places you don't know. It's even harder to leave the people you know to go to people you don't know.  And yet this week, we walk with the father of the faith as he trades the known for the unknown and obeys God by faith. In our walkthrough of Genesis 12, we are going to find "4 Ways to Be Equipped to Live a Life of Faith". Without faith...

Genesis 11:1-9 | A group of people set out to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves. God wants them to scatter in faith to multiply His image. They want to stay together, comfortable, and safe. God wants them to live lives making His name famous. They want to make their names famous. The story of Babel is a story of God's grace to intervene in the lives of a people who want to pre...

Genesis 7:1-9:29 | There is something subtly dangerous that can happen with the "big stories" of the Bible. You know, those ones you'll find in every children's Bible, David and Goliath...Daniel and the lion's den...Joseph and his coat of many colors... The subtly dangerous thing is to get so caught up in the acts of the people of God that we lose sight of God's actual work in the story. This week...

Genesis 6:1-22 | It seems like the world is getting worse by the year. More compromise. More sin. Fewer and fewer people following God. Even those who used to follow God have been falling away.  Sound familiar?  This is the world in Genesis 6. We’re now 10 generations after creation and the world is getting worse with every passing one. What is God going to do? And how should we respond? Come this...

Genesis 4:1-26 | Once sin starts things get ugly. Sin unchecked gets brutal. From the story of the very first sin last week, we now see the evil escalate as the blood of a murdered man at the hands of his brother cries out before the Lord. As the people multiply on the earth, the image of God does not. And this was not God's intent. What happens in this gruesome scene? How will God deal with multi...

Genesis 3:1-24 | Genesis 3 is ugly. Humans rebel against God. That never goes well. Rebellion against God never makes life easier, better, simpler... it always makes life more painful. As we watch the first-ever sin unfold this week, we will be able to glean important things we need to know about life in this broken world. Where does sin originate? How does sin work? How is sin defeated? And yet i...

Genesis 2:1-25 | We can get out of balance so fast on the topics of work and rest. On one side, we can begin to worship work as God, instead of seeing work as worship to God. Out of a desire for more, to make a name for ourselves, or to run from other responsibilities in our life, we can become workaholics to our own demise. On the other side, we can tend toward laziness or complaining about work...

Genesis 2:1-25 | The human being is unique to all other created things. Only the human was made by the very breath of God breathing life into his nostrils. Only the human being was made in the image of God. Humans (men and women) are made in a unique way with a unique purpose in creation. We must understand how God made us so we can understand what we were made for. In Genesis 2 we will look at 4...