Biblical, Expository, and Christ-Centered Sermons

Before Jacob and Esau were born, God told Rebekah that her two sons would eventually become two nations, and that the older would serve the younger (Gen. 25:23). Before, during, and after being born, the two wrestled with one another, with each trying to gain the...

Leadership is not a blank check to do whatever the leader desires. Primarily, leadership entails sacrificial responsibility—responsibility to those in authority over the leader, and responsibility to those over whom the leader exercises authority. During his earthly...

Relationships are messy. Even under the best of circumstances, trying to navigate the desires and distrust of other people can be one of the most difficult things we do—especially if we are at fault for something that has hurt another person. With all of these...

Philosophers have long wrestled with the so-called “problem of evil.” In a nutshell, the problem of evil raises a thorny dilemma: If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and absolutely good, then how can evil still exist? Or, from the opposite perspective, if evil does...

When Laban heads back to his home (Gen. 31:55), Jacob escapes the frying pan only to head into the fire. Coming back into the land of Canaan, Jacob must now face up to lingering conflicts and festering wounds that have remained unaddressed for the past twenty years....

This world is not friendly to God’s people. Because this world hates God, the world also hates us. The world has raged in war against God and God’s anointed since the beginning: “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set...