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01. Genesis

The Missionary Heart of God

We become the most like Jesus when we join the missionary heart of God to move out, into the unknown, to be a blessing to Bay Ridge and beyond.

Genesis 11:27-12:3

September 22, 2024

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Jesus Is the Victor

 All of creation is under a curse and subject to constant evil which leads to suffering and death.  But Jesus has won a monumental victory over Satan, sin, suffering and eternal death, and followers of Christ can live boldly and rejoice in knowing that they have eternal life and freedom from the antagonists of God.

Revelation 20:15-22:7; Genesis 3:1-19

June 2, 2024

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Transformed by Trinity

Trinity makes salvation possible and Trinity makes salvation sweet. Only with a God of Trinity can we be freely welcomed in together as brothers and sisters to share the joy of God and cry together, “Abba Father!”

Genesis 1:1-3; John 1:1-3

April 28, 2024

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Christ the True and Better Son

Jesus the Anointed One fills out the redemptive patterns (or “types”) in Genesis 22, revealing that our salvation rests on Jesus’s perfect, lifelong, patient, vicarious obedience to the point of death a cross and on his vindicating resurrection from the dead.

Genesis 22:1–19

December 10, 2023

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God’s Heart for the Nations

The entire Bible reveals God’s heart for the nations to come to Him, and His people are called to love all nations and cultures and labor to take the Gospel to them.

Genesis 12:1-3

June 25, 2023

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A Seed of Hope

The good world that God created for mankind’s enjoyment was sabotaged by mans rebellion to the command of God but finds its fix in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Genesis 3 Listen to the teaching Look at the outline Discussion Guide Slides Spotify

December 5, 2021

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Freedom, Limits, and the Nature of Sin

Sin promises freedom and fulfillment if I will reject God’s limiting commands and design, but this always produces deadly results rather than life, freedom, and flourishing.

Genesis 2:15-17; Genesis 3

March 28, 2021

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Freedom: Embracing Feasting and Fasting

True freedom is found in a proper relationship with food, neither despising nor idolizing it, but rather rejoicing in it as God’s good gift which points to our ultimate need for God Himself.

Genesis 1:29-30; Genesis 2:15-17

March 12, 2021

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Embracing the Limits of Body and Soul

True freedom is found in recognizing humanity as including both body and soul, and embracing the inherent identity and limits of both.

Genesis 1:26-28; Genesis 2:7

February 28, 2021

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The Key to Human Freedom

The key to human freedom is recognizing and embracing our inherent nature as we were created by God, including both the God-given dignity and limits of that nature.

Genesis 1:26-31

February 18, 2021

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Our Long War Against God’s Image

In our rebellion against God, humanity has consistently demeaned, degraded, and attempted to destroy other humans because they are created in God’s image.

Genesis 4:8-10

January 14, 2021

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The Lord Will Provide

The LORD sees me and provides for me, even sacrificing His own Son so that I might be spared and blessed.

Genesis 22:1-18

June 7, 2020

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The Obedience of Faith

True faith leads to a life of growing obedience to God’s covenant and commands.

Genesis 17 (17:1-14; 23-27)

March 8, 2020

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The Covenant of Promise

God promised to bless Abram and his seed abundantly, and He called Abram and His seed to be a blessing to the whole world.

Genesis 12:1-7

February 23, 2020

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The Covenant of Preservation (Noah)

In the fall, humans broke God’s covenant and fell under the curse, but God In His grace, God gave His covenant promise to preserve creation and humanity, renewing the covenant of creation and establishing human government to restrain evil and promote the common good through this age until the final judgment.

Genesis 6:17-18; 9:1-11

February 9, 2020

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The Covenant of Redemption (Adam)

In the fall, humans broke God’s covenant and fell under the curse, but God promised to redeem humans from the curse through the coming Seed of the woman.

Genesis 3:14–19

February 2, 2020

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The Covenant of Creation – Part 3

God’s covenant of creation calls us to obey Him as our covenant Lord, embracing the limitations He built into us at creation, including receiving and celebrating the gift of Sabbath rest.

Genesis 1:26–2:3; Genesis 2:15-17

January 26, 2020

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The Covenant of Creation – Part 2

In creation, God entered into a covenant with humanity as the image of God, calling us to worshipful obedience through proper relationships with creation, other humans, and God Himself.

Genesis 1:26–28; Genesis 2:18–24

January 19, 2020

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The Covenant of Creation – Part 1

In creation, God entered into a covenant with humanity as the image of God, calling us to worshipful obedience through proper relationships with creation, other humans, and God Himself.

Genesis 1:26–2:3; Genesis 2:15–17

January 12, 2020

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The Advent Promise Given

In the midst of the wreckage of the Fall, God gave a promise that Jesus would come to redeem and rescue us.

Genesis 3:15

December 3, 2017

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The Sanctity of Human Life

Humans are uniquely the image of God and therefore all human life is sacred, from conception until natural death.

Genesis 5:1-3

January 22, 2017

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God Will Provide A Lamb

The disappointments of life can provoke doubt in even the strongest believers, but the quiet reflection on God’s Word and work can restore our faith and fill us with praise.

Genesis 22

November 27, 2016

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