The bridge between death and hope is often tenuous at best. Folks face death every day. Dying communities. Dying ecosystems. Dying employment sectors. Dying churches. Dying loved ones. But the good news of Jesus Christ is that God works with the dead and dying to bring new life. The bad news for us is that the resurrection power of God is only visible in the face of death. For faithful people like Abraham and Sarah, the link between death and hope is laughter. This week’s sermon looks at the birth of Isaac.
Archive for Abraham
Despite the obvious temptation to write Hagar and Ishmael out of the Abraham narrative, God acted to sustain them and even to make out of Ishmael a great nation. In these ancient stories of faith, who was good and who is bad? Did God only bless those who belonged to the chosen people? These questions and more form the backbone of Jason Locke’s sermon from Genesis 21.
Over half of the world’s population look to Abraham as the patriarch of their faith. What kind of a man was this from whom God established great nations, a multitude of people, and the global faiths of Judaism, Christianity & Islam? What can we learn from how God worked in Abraham’s life? Jason Locke points in these directions as he starts a new series on the great patriarchs from Genesis 12-50.