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From the Inside to the Outside For several weeks now, we've been walking through Genesis, watching God work through people who had every reason to disqualify themselves. We met Abraham, a man who lied to protect himself, who laughed at God's promise, who tried to force God's timeline. We met Jacob, a deceiver who stole his brother's future, who spent twenty years reaping what he had sown, who wrestled with God and walked away limping but renamed. We met Judah, a man who sold

The Satisfying Before-and-After Have any of you ever gotten sucked into those YouTube videos of massive overgrown yards? You know the ones I'm talking about. The lawn hasn't been mowed in months, maybe years. There are weeds taller than a person, vines overtaking everything, the whole place looks like a jungle. And then someone shows up with industrial equipment and spends hours mowing it all down, edging the sidewalks, trimming the hedges. And by the end, it looks like a com

Every Family Has Branches They'd Rather Not Talk About That's the thing about family trees. Every family has branches they'd rather not talk about. People who made choices that don't quite fit the narrative we want to tell. And Jesus' family tree is no different. Last week we looked at Abraham, the father of the faith who waited twenty-five years for God's promise and learned that God keeps His word even when the wait feels impossible. Today, we're looking at Abraham's grands

Where Do You Come From? How many of you have ever worked on your family tree? Done any genealogy research, traced your ancestry back through the generations? It's fascinating work, isn't it? I love genealogy. I've been able to trace my family tree back over a thousand years, and I've discovered I have ancestors from about a dozen different countries all across Europe. I even did one of those DNA tests that tells you what percentage of your DNA comes from which countries. Why