| Title | Reference | Description | Publish Date |
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A Disastrous Decision
| Genesis 13 | We all make decisions in life. They can big or small. They can can be in an instant or over a period of time. They can be clear or surprise you. Some decisions can be good and some bad. They can be selfish or selfless. God can be consulted or not.
The decisions we make have consequences. Decisions can sometimes seem attractive and then blow up in your face! | 2008-01-01 |
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A Marriage Made In Paradise
| Genesis 2:18-25 | In this passage, God reveals His intentions concerning marriage and His goals for the married couple. The principles taught here will go a long way in helping to divorce proof our marriages. Let's take a few minutes this evening to look into this text and see for ourselves what makes a marriage made in paradise. | 2006-09-02 |
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Abraham The Friend Of God
| Genesis 12:1-9 | There is a particular spirit that makes someone a pioneer. It takes courage to go into something new and uncharted. There are those today who go into the missionary field in this way. | 2008-01-01 |
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Abraham The Great
| Genesis 14 | How would you like the be remembered? What legacy have you left? What would you put on your tombstone now? We all have a reputation and a legacy that we leave behind us. Richard I was known ans "Richard the Lionheart". With Abraham it is "Abraham the Great". What was great with Abraham in the eyes of God? | 2008-01-01 |
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Back To Bethel
| Genesis 35:1-3 |
Come back to Bethel, the House of God, back to the ladder which is Christ, through whom
we have access to God, fellowship with Him.
| 2008-08-23 |
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Born To Reign
| Genesis 1:24-26 |
Redeemed
man is never to be a helpless victim of circumstances.
It was not meant for the world to make
havoc of the church, but for the church to make
havoc of the world.
| 2008-12-16 |
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Celebrate The Difference
| Genesis 2:19-24 | It is important
to realise the differences between a man and woman. In so many marriages
this is the reason for so many problems. Different so we can become one. This difference
is by God's design. | 2008-01-01 |
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Dealing With Death
| Genesis 23:1-6 | Abraham's wife Sarah dies. How does Abraham deal with death? How should we deal with death. At sometime in our life we will have to deal with death. It cannot be avoided forever. As we get older it comes more into our minds. Sarah has been with Abraham for many years. Sarah is a believer and is with God. Abraham has to deal with grief and the loss of his friend for many years. God gives us strength when we need it. | 2005-05-22 |
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Eavesdropping
| Genesis 42:1-10 | We are able to eavesdrop on a family conversation. Jacob is annoyed with his sons as they are not doing anything. Jacob saw the corn his neighbours had bought in Egypt, and brought home. Jacob takes the initiative. You can't just sit there, you have to do something! | 2003-09-03 |
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Favouritism Breeds Insecurity
| Genesis 37:1-11 | Why was Joseph the favourite? There is a root of this in the family tree. E.g. Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. It caused jealousy in the family. Rachel had died and Joseph was a son she had given Jacob.
How did he demonstrate this favouritism? (vs 3) This coat marked Joseph out as favourite and was a slap in the face to his brothers.
| 2003-02-07 |
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Fish and Fowl
| Genesis 1:20-23 | God fills the seas and the air on the fifth day. Up until now they had been empty. The evolutionists say that this happened over thousands of years. God said and it was created. It was no accident. | 2004-11-05 |
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Four Lies That Ruined The World
| Genesis 3:1-5 | Satan wants to bring death and he brings it through deception. He is the master liar. He knows how to tell lies. They are not obvious lies. They are very subtle.
They sound like the truth. They are close to the truth. If you believe a wrong thing you will keep on doing it over and over again. Satan wants you to believe lies about big things rather than small things. There is nothing bigger than God. Satan wants converts not casualties. Satan tells four big lies in Genesis. | 2008-01-01 |
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God and God Alone
| Genesis 1:1 | Time, space and matter will not just give you a universe. Some hold to evolution and others to God. Evolution requires chance and God is left out of the picture. It happens without a cause. Chance has no chance. With creation there is a purpose. God has always existed. Evolution seeks to eliminate God. If God is eliminated then the evoltionist is not accountable to anyone. They can live however they want. Scientists do not speak for the human race. We speak for ourselves. There are many Christians and non-Christians who believe in a creator. Even many scientists believe in a creator. Design requires a designer. | 2004-09-14 |
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God Has Something Special For You
| Genesis 37:1-36 | God has plans for us that we can only begin to imagine. We see things and formulate plans that we think would be wonderful, but God has something far more special for us than we could ever imagine. A look at the life of Joseph illustrates this truth. Joseph's life demonstrates four facts that you will find true as you travel the path God has cleared for you. If you can remember these truths, then no matter how dark the clouds, how depressing the circumstances or how diligent the critics, you will always be aware of the fact that God has something special for you. | 2006-09-02 |
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God Says Let Go
| Genesis 22:1-14 |
What are the things that you hold the most tight to? Is it your work? Is it your health? Is it the church you attend?
What would you do if God came into your life with an invitation to let go? If god is telling you to let go of
something, you may not have much time to decide! You may wonder what will happen if you let go.
| 2008-01-01 |
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Gods Foundation For Family
| Genesis 3:1-9 | There is no point trying to build a Christian home if you are not looking at the blueprints of the designer. See God’s perfectly designed original instructions. Too many foundations are built on rubbish rather than a rock. See Matthew 7:24. God hates divorce. | 2008-01-01 |
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God's Presence In The Hour Of Death
| Genesis 50:22-25 | The fear of death keeps many in bondage. See Hebrews 2:13-15. Jesus has come to deliver. You are not ready to live until you are ready to die. A child of God can smile at death. | 2008-01-01 |
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Handling Grief
| Genesis 3:16 |
There is a difference between grief and mourning. Grief tends to be private, while grief is mourning gone public.
The grieving can happen before a person has died. It can depend on who the person was
and the nature of the detachment. The nature of the death can also be a factor. The
death could be sudden or very slow. A number of sudden deaths can have a knock-on effect.
| 2009-03-15 |
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How It All Began
| Genesis 1:1 |
The problem of origins provokes more violent controversies, wild
theories, and wide disagreements than any other subject in the Bible.
The intrusion of human hypotheses has produced a babel of voices
that has drowned out the clear voice of God in the Book of Genesis.
| 2008-08-23 |
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In The Beginning
| Genesis 1:1 |
It hardly needs to be said that the place to begin
reading a book is at the beginning. Still, many
people have the habit of reading the last chapter of
a book first. But if you try that with the Bible, you
will become very confused indeed. The best place
to begin with it is at the beginning.
| 2008-12-16 |
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Jacob Goes On A Journey
| Genesis 45:25-46:34 | Life is a journey and this one has a happy ending. Jacob was being asked to believe those who had deceived him for many years. This was Jacob's big test. He forgives his sons.
| 2003-09-11 |
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Joseph Reveals Himself
| Genesis 45:1-10 | Joseph finally reveals himself in this passage. He says "I am Joseph" and beckons his family to "come close to me". There are three things that he reveals. | 2003-09-21 |
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Joseph Says No!
| Genesis 39:6-21 | There has been an emergence of "girl power" in recent years. In this passage the woman is out to tempt the man. She is coming from a position of power. | 2003-02-24 |
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Life A Balancing Act
| Genesis 1:26-2:24 | How are you balancing your life? Here are some principles to get a balanced life. | 2008-01-01 |
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Light in the Heavens
| Genesis 1:14-19 | Where did the stars and planets come from? It has been a question that has perplexed scientists for centuries. It was God who created the light (Genesis 1:3) before he created the luminaries in the sky. | 2004-11-07 |
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One Of Those Days
| Genesis 18:1-33 |
Can you hand things over to God when you are having "one of those days" and things seem to be going from bad to worse?
| 2008-01-01 |
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Out Of Darkness
| Genesis 1:2-5 |
The Spirit of God is moving
to what end? To bring light out of darkness, to
bring shape out of shapelessness, form out of
formlessness, moving to accomplish. Without light there can be no life.
| 2008-12-16 |
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Perfect Healing
| Genesis 49 & 50 | We all have to deal with grief or those who have hurt us deeply. We need God's help for perfect healing. | 2004-08-24 |
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Practicing The Presence Of God
| Genesis 49-50 | We all have to deal with grief or those who have hurt us deeply. We need God's help for perfect healing | 2008-01-01 |
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Reconciliation
| Genesis 43:15-34 | The brothers have been apart for twenty years. Joseph will eventually reveal himself to his brothers. | 2003-09-07 |
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Sex And Food
| Genesis 1:27, 1:29-31 |
It is significant that at the first mention of man,
both sexes are named. This means that sex is no
afterthought with God. Nor is woman an afterthought.
| 2008-12-20 |
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Signs And Seasons
| Genesis 1:14-19 |
Anyone familiar with the Bible at
all knows how the sun and the moon have served as
great signs.
| 2008-12-20 |
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Spiritual Short Sightedness
| Genesis 25:19-34 | Here are some characteristics of people who are spiritually shortsighted. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Blind Date
| Genesis 24:1-8; 61-67 |
Isaac is a powerful type of Jesus in the Old Testament. He was a special son of Abraham. He was
unique as he was a child of promise. He was supernaturally born when Abraham was 100 years old and
his wife Sarah unable to have children. See Romans 4:19. They were a couple of "old codgers" and Sarah
laughed when she heard from the angel that she is going to have a baby. This is why they named this
baby "Isaac" which means "laughter". There are many spiritual lessons we can learn from this story.
| 2010-09-04 |
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The Fall Of Man
| Genesis 3:1-24 | In this chapter is given the answer to the existence of evil in the world, a problem
that has exercised the minds and hearts of philosophers and theologians through
the ages. It still however does not answer fully questions such as ‘Why did an omnipotent,
omniscient and loving God permit evil to occur?’ | 2008-01-01 |
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The First Babylon
| Genesis 10-11 | After the flood the people began, once again, to look to man for leadership, instead of trusting God to take care of them. One of the men the people began to look to for leadership was a man named Nimrod. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Glory And Misery Of Man
| Genesis 1:26-28 |
This is the glory and the dignity of man,
that at the beginning he was made in the image and
likeness of God.
| 2008-12-20 |
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The God of Creation
| Genesis 1:1 | The book of Genesis is the book of the beginnings of everything except God Himself. We have the commencement of creation, Satan, sin and more. The book of Revelation is the end of these things. We presented with the God of Creation. What can we say about the ten words of this first verse? | 2004-09-12 |
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The Gospel According To Joseph 1
| Genesis 37:1-3 | The Bible is about Jesus Christ and He is the key to understanding it. The scriptures testify about Jesus Christ. Joseph is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Gospel According To Joseph 2
| Genesis 35:1-3 | The events happened 25 centuries ago but it is still fresh today. It is just as though it was baked just this morning. There are seven salvation similarities. | 2008-01-01 |
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The Heights And Depths Of Life
| Genesis 1:20-23 |
There had been no animal life of any kind
before, but now it is created in the same way he brought the earth, in the beginning, out of nothing.
It strongly suggests that animal life did not evolve
from lifeless matter.
| 2008-12-20 |
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The Invisible Kingdom
| Genesis 1:6-8 |
He made the physical universe in order
to reflect these so that, as we look around us and
observe and assimilate with our senses, we are
constantly reminded of the great things that are
taking place within us, and around us, in the invisible
kingdom that surrounds us on all sides.
| 2008-12-20 |
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The Israel Connection
| Genesis 12:1-13 |
The prophetic word of God gives us many prophesies that wer fulfilled in the past and
those which are still to be fulfilled in the future. If history tells us that prophecy has been
fulfilled then we can have confidence that these future prophecies will be fulfilled. Bible
prophecy always comes true. It has a 100% success rate, unlike the predictions of false
prophets, psychics and horiscopes! The number one evidence today of the fulfillment of Bible
prophecy is the rebirth of Israel.
| 2010-05-30 |
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The Seventh Day
| Genesis 2:1-3 |
The work of God is complete on
the seventh day, and therefore no evening or
morning is mentioned.
| 2008-12-20 |
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To Bring Forth Fruit
| Genesis 1:9-13 |
The only thing that makes
the fruit possible is the fact that there is a life from
Christ within. If you do not understand this, then
you do not understand what it means to be a Christian.
| 2008-12-20 |
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Unjust Treatment
| Genesis 39:21-23 | Joseph is unjustly treated. An innocent man is put in prison. He had refused to have sex with Potipher's wife and she had claimed rape. Joseph still believed that God was with him. Joseph learned from his harsh experiences - the pit and the prison. He comes out a better person, not a bitter person. Joseph was open to learn. When he went down he would come up again. | 2003-03-03 |
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Unleashing Your Passion Potential
| Genesis 24:1-53 | If you have it, it propels you to absolute greatness. If you don't have it then you don't understand people who have it. The secret ingredient is passion. It is an unbelievable burst of energy and passion that propels you to do something greater and achieve something more. It produces enthusiasm that is contagious! | 2007-07-28 |
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Unsinkable Saints
| Genesis 6:5-21 | All the great civilisations in history have a story of a great flood. They are mostly garbled and corrupted apart from the account in Genesis. What was the Days of Noah like? It was a time of apostasy. It was a time of violence. It was a time of wickedness. Life was going on as normal and no one seemed to care. It had reached saturation point with God. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. | 2005-03-08 |
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Waiting Time Is Not Wasted Time
| Genesis 40:23-41:32 | We can learn to wait on God from the story of Joseph. | 2008-01-01 |
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Was Abraham Justified By Works?
| Genesis 22:1-18 |
Abraham has
borne a testimony to the world that he was a man of faith. And if
anyone wants to question his faith, we have but to say he was willing
to offer his son upon the altar, and that ends the argument.
He had the kind of faith that God said he had.
| 2008-08-23 |
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When Nothing Seems To Make Sense
| Genesis 39:20-23 | It is when nothing seems to make sense. Life can be up and down and nothing seems to make sense. You are being battered from every angle. There are some principles we can apply. | 2008-01-01 |
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When Our Dreams Are Shattered
| Genesis 37:12-36 | Joseph was given the opportunity to break the circle of deceit. Joseph will go from everything to nothing, from security to insecurity. | 2003-02-24 |
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Why The Flood?
| Genesis 6 |
It was pretty hard in Noah’s time to have the world against you, but it sure was nice
to be right the day the Flood came.
| 2008-08-23 |