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What happens when sin gets the best of you and you find yourself flat on your face?  Where do you turn during the darkest of moments?  In what (or whom) do you hope in when your life seems to be jacked up?  

Join us this week for a look into the life of David in hopes of not only learning how to respond when sin jacks up our world but also in learning about Whom we can trust in…even in our darkest moments.  Come find out, as David did, that no matter how great the sin, God’s grace is greater.

justin

Join us tonight as we continue our series “Real Men of Genesis” with a look into the exemplary life and obedience of Abraham.  What does it look like to live a life that counts for the for the Kingdom of God? Come tonight and lets allow Scripture to speak into our lives on this topic. 

Drew

Dreams come true.  They make for great stories that we love to tell, watch in cinemas, and long to personally experience.  Maybe you have a dream.  If not, I think you should; God has a dream for you.

But here’s the rub: the down time, the waiting period between “dream” and “reality” is a killer, isn’t it?  That impregnated pause of months and often years between a God-given dream and the actualization of that dream is a dry season of questioning, of self-motivating pep talks, revving your motor, and impatiently pawing the dirt. 

None of us likes to wait.  In fact, we hate to wait.

Tonight we will pause to consider how Real Men and Women of Genesis responded to seasons of waiting.  We welcome all you dreamers who have been jolted out of your sleep – those of you shaken from a pleasant slumber and rudely awakened to a world devoid of instant results and immediate satisfaction.

We start at 7:30 PM.  I pray it’s worth the wait.

gary

Here’s the lowdown: Tonight continues our Real Men (and Women) of Genesis Series.  We will read an uplifting, romantic story: A ridiculously rich guy meets a beautiful girl and they get married.  I mean there’s some weird stuff in the story like the fact that the marriage was arranged, the bride was his cousin, and the honeymoon was in a tent.  But other than that, I think you will consider this to be a pretty cool story.

Here is my promise: as a single man or single woman, you will be able to relate to the ENTIRE story of this couple.  Yes… the entire story.

gary

Tonight would be a great night to bring a friend (but maybe a weird night to invite your cousin).  See you at 7:30.

Imagine it’s late at night and you are scrolling through the channels until you come to an old episode of Jerry Springer.  It’s like the proverbial car wreck that you can’t drive past without morbidly slowing down to gawk.

This particular episode of Springer, let’s say, is one in which a 70 year old man is married to two sisters at the same time.  And these two sisters also encouraged their husband to sleep with their two good friends.  One by one, Jerry calls out his guests to take a seat on the stage.  The crowd jeers as the gigolo sits down between the warring sisters and his two mistresses.  Eventually, all 13 of their children stand on stage with their respective mothers.  Jerry Springer’s show was outlandish, disgusting, and bizarre.  

Tonight we continue in our series, “Real Men of Genesis.”  Moses wrote the book of Genesis, recording in detail the realness and rawness of humanity.  Moses was so brutally honest in telling you and me the stories of Real Men and Real Women in Genesis that I wonder if Springer was in his ancestral line. 

The Springer episode I described above is true. No, it didn’t happen on national television, but it did take place in Genesis.  Tonight we will look equally at both the men and women in this story as we consider the outcome of this strange, sad, yet surprisingly grace-filled story.

gary