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Oct 19, 2025

Sermon: The Patriarch – In the Council of God

Genesis 18.16-33: After a message of hope, the LORD's visit brings a message of judgment. Abraham stands in the middle of this as he is brought into the knowledge of God's plans. We see God preparing Abraham to know how to be a true representative of the message of God to the world. One part is a call to holiness and a second is serving as intercessors that the world might respond to God's mercy in Christ.

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Oct 19, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – In the Council of God

Oct 19, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – In the Council of God

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 18.16-33: After a message of hope, the LORD's visit brings a message of judgment. Abraham stands in the middle of this as he is brought into the knowledge of God's plans. We see God preparing Abraham to know how to be a true representative of the message of God to the world. One part is a call to holiness and a second is serving as intercessors that the world might respond to God's mercy in Christ.
Oct 12, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Hospitable to God’s Coming

Oct 12, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Hospitable to God’s Coming

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 18.1-15: After long years of waiting, the LORD appears to Abraham and gives news of fulfillment finally coming. It is a mysterious encounter, but one that speaks life into a hopeless situation. The call for us to be hospitable to the visitation of God in our lives, which involves growing by the Spirit within, that our hearts might be in the light rather than be of darkness.
Oct 5, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Cut at the Heart

Oct 5, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Cut at the Heart

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 17: In forming Abraham's identity closer to himself, the Lord commands Abraham to the act of circumcision. This serves as a sign of Abraham and Israel's identity and reminds them that our source for life is always in God and not ourselves. The pain of the act reminds us of the coming pain that our Lord would take upon himself that we might be free from sin and live our life for him.
Sep 28, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – New Names

Sep 28, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – New Names

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 17: After Genesis 16, where the lower plane of Abraham's life shows itself, God appears to Abraham in Genesis 17 and calls him to the higher plane again - to the purposes of heaven, not that of earth. God provides new names that represent his design and he calls Abraham to live blamelessly, especially following the disaster of Genesis 16.
Sep 21, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – The God Who Sees: Part 2

Sep 21, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – The God Who Sees: Part 2

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 16: In this messy story, we come to know the God who sees us, both in our suffering and in the suffering we bring to others. We can both identify with Hagar, but also must consider our patterns of Sarai. Only then are we truly honest before God and can find both his comfort when harmed, but also repentance when acting as the inflictor of harm. Both must draw us to Christ, who frees us in our sin and also in our hurts.
Sep 14, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – The God Who Sees: Part 1

Sep 14, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – The God Who Sees: Part 1

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 16: This part of the Abraham story is not often dealt with. It highlights less than ideal attempt by Abram and Sarai to secure the promises of God. But in seeking this, they repeat the error of Genesis 3 when Eve and Adam grasped for the forbidden fruit. This is the pattern of life on our lower plane that continuously must be redeemed by God in his grace.
Sep 7, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Inheritance of the World

Sep 7, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Inheritance of the World

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 15: God's promise to Abraham has two parts to it, a son and the land. Today, we focus on what the promise of the land is about and how it is understood as the history of God's redemption moves toward Christ.
Aug 31, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – As to Adam, so Abram

Aug 31, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – As to Adam, so Abram

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 15.7-19: Wrapped up in Abram's story is the ongoing tension of promise, fulfillment, suffering, and hope for a future beyond death. These themes come into our life as well. The desire we have of a good life here, but also of an eternal life forever. We live this in tension, meanwhile struggling with the hardships of this life. Within that gap of promise and realization we learn to trust and to hope in the God that has brought our salvation.
Aug 24, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Walking in Faith

Aug 24, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Walking in Faith

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 15.1-6: Looking again at the first six verses, we consider Abram 'walking' with God into fullness, living out of the 'Amen' of trust, and being renewed in right relationship with God (righteousness).
Aug 17, 2025Sermon: The Patriarch – Believing the Unbelievable

Aug 17, 2025
Sermon: The Patriarch – Believing the Unbelievable

By: Pastor Ben Hulst
Series: Abraham: The Patriarch
Genesis 15.1-6: We continue in our Abraham series and consider how the promises of God turn Abraham's life of negation into a life of abundance. This is the life of faith, but it takes trusting in God's sovereignty and goodness. This is the path of faith as we follow in the footsteps of Abraham, the father of faith.