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Wrestling With God

Faith can be a uniquely refreshing and stabilizing lifeline in our life, but it is not easy. This series will explore the lives of the principal figures in the family of Abraham, the father of faith. We’ll discover they are best appreciated not as paragons of faith, but as multidimensional, thoroughly human figures. This approach makes these ancient biblical characters accessible to us today because we are all complex people who wrestle with God.

Wrestling With God
Genesis 35:1-15

Journeying On

The power of grace does not eras our past, but rather re-forms it, transforming who we were into who we are called to be. Free from shame and redeemed by God’s undying love, the chorus of scripture’s song is that there are no lost causes with God.
November 26, 2023
Clint Wilson
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Wrestling With God
Genesis 32:22-31

The Limping Wrestler

With this mysterious story, our series reaches its dramatic climax. Jacob’s wrestling with God encapsulates his life and signals his transformation. It also helps us appreciate how we can grow into healthier versions of ourselves.
November 19, 2023
Leo Schuster
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Wrestling With God
Genesis 29:16-35

Searing Love

One of the most subversive elements of Scripture is the way the Lord elevates and cares for women. This passage might be read as a story about a man and his two wives; but it is also a story about God drawing a beloved daughter close, choosing her to serve his plan to redeem the world.
November 12, 2023
Anna Russell Thornton
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Wrestling With God
Genesis 28:10-22

The Stairway

Ever feel like your life is a mess and you’re not sure what to do? In a timeless story of stunning hope we find Jacob on the run. His life had fallen apart and things were dark. Having burned bridges with his family and disconnected from God, he was all alone. Yet that’s exactly where God met him and revealed to him realities that not only gave him hope to carry on, but changed his life forever.
November 5, 2023
Leo Schuster
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Wrestling With God
Genesis 27:18-27, 30-36

Succession

Jacob’s deceitful disguises can only secure broken blessings, and by lying to others, he is really lying to himself. The path to true self-knowledge runs through the cross, where we see the depths of both the need for mercy and the free gift of God’s endless love.
October 29, 2023
Clint Wilson
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Wrestling With God
Genesis 25:19-34

The Genesis of Jacob

The origin story of Jacob and Esau tell us of two temptations that can threaten the life of faith: taking our future into our own hands, or abandoning the responsibility to wait on God’s timing. The better way is a third way: the way of the cross, and the one who showed strength in his weakness, absolute faith in the face of unimaginable fear.
October 22, 2023
Clint Wilson
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