St. Paul Lutheran Church, Matteson, Illinois & Pastor Troester

God again confirms His Covenant with Abram & Sarai and calls them to walk with Him and obey Him.

Abram & Sarai try to have an heir through Sarai's servant girl, Hagar, but God intervenes.

God renews the covenant He made with Abram.

Abram rescues Lot from his enemies, then makes a gift to Melchizedek, the king of righteousness, who is the king of Salem ('peace') and a type of Christ being both king and priest.

Abram continues to follow God's lead and step out in faith, being family to his nephew, Lot, and making sure he is cared for, with God's blessing.

God calls to Abram & Sarai and promises to make his family and blessing to all people, and they are called to trust and follow Him.

God confuses the languages of the people who rebel against His command to "fill the earth," and rather go make a name for themselves.

The family of Noah, those who filled the earth after the flood.

God's covenant with Noah and mankind that He will not destroy with flood waters and Noah's pledge to trust and obey God.

Some of the most beautiful words we can hear is, "but God remembered...", because when God remembers He does something, too. Here God remembers Noah and his family and causes the flood waters to dry up and gets Noah "back on dry ground."

The details of the worldwide, total deluge of everything on earth, and the death of everyone and every creature, except for Noah and his family who are kept safe by God in the ark.

The history of all creation, and especially of mankind's beginings by God, Who despite our rebellious and waywards ways, is faithful to His promises to save us.

Where the slippery slope of sin and rebellion against God leads us to where Cain takes his brother Abel's life, but where God continues to reach out to those He created and calls them back to Himself.

The history of the cause for the turmoil and death we experience, caused by our rebellion against God.

After explaining what God did on Day 7 and established a day of rest for us all, Genesis 2 gives us an expanded version of Day 6 and the creation of mankind, male and female and establishes marriage and family.

Genesis tells us about the existence of God and how He created everything, including the order we see yet today.

Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Matthew, an Apostle of Jesus, tells us some of the finals details of Jesus life, including Jesus' commissioning of His followers to make Disciples as they go, baptize and teach.

The details about the death and the burial of Jesus Christ, especially those of inadvertently (by mistake) just reaffirm for us Who Jesus is, and how all their efforts only reinforce what we believe about Jesus, our Savior, our Redeemer, the Son of God!

The details of the days of Jesus before His crucifixion and resurrection.

Here are three parables where Jesus lays the truths about being prepared to die so that we go to heaven with earthly stories the readers would relate with. We call them parables, and they speak truth to us and point us to following Jesus.

There is nothing or no one here that will last, only Jesus' words and promises and God Himself. Rejoice, you know Jesus and He is your Savior and His Word endures forever (and so will you, in Him!)

Jesus speaks "woe" to those who are not practicing what they are preaching, and in love for them He confronts them and longs to have them come back to Him.

Jesus teaches of the urgency of the invitation to come to Him, and Him alone, to be saved.

Jesus comes in to Jersusalem to complete the work of salvation that He came for.

Jesus teaches about serving.