Calvary Chapel Of Lafayette, Louisiana

Prior to the time of Christopher Columbus people thought the edge of the horizon was the end of the world. They thought you dropped off the face of the earth as if you had arrived at a steep cliff. Some people see life that way, as if it just drops off. They think life as you see it is hopeless. But in today’s message we are going to look at a lady who could have lost hope. Instead she held […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

George Lichtenberg said this about vows: “To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.” The reason making the vow is the greater sin is that we couldn’t break a vow if we didn’t make it in the first place. And most vows somehow end up broken. In today’s lesson, the Lord is going to remind Jacob of the vows he made when he first met Him at Bethel. And as we will see in our study, […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

It’s been said that “despair ruins some, presumption many!” Jacob was a man who often was presumptuous in his walk with God. He would do what he wanted to do and then ask the Lord to bless it, and that practice almost resulted in his ruin. But in today’s text, in his despair, he will do the right thing and get God’s help, and do as he is instructed to do, and he will be greatly blessed! We all can […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In this week’s text, we will witness the birth of eleven of Jacob’s twelve sons. Six of them will be born to Leah; four will be born to Leah and Rachel’s handmaids; and one will be born to Rachel. When we get to chapter 35, we will read about the birth of the twelfth son born to Rachel. I like to refer to these twelve sons as the “dirty dozen,” not because they were physically filthy, but because of the […]

In Scripture, the Christian is often likened to a soldier fighting in a war. But before any soldier goes to war, he must complete his basic training in boot camp. Jacob, the main character of today’s text, spent years in his basic training, and from his experience, we’ll learn a lot about our own boot camp, and why it lasts as long as it does, and why it’s more difficult for some than it is for others. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In this week’s study we will see how Jacob, after seeing the glorified Lord in a dream, will make a vow to make Jehovah his God. But as we will see, his vow is based on some bad theology that the Lord is going to have to correct. A lot of us have some pretty bad theology when we first get saved, too. But just like He did for Jacob, God will use His word and His Spirit and our […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Today we will be taking a peak at the vision Jacob saw in his dream of a ladder or staircase that reached from heaven to earth. As we will learn in our lesson, the ladder he saw is the one that serves as a bridge between God and man and heaven and earth. And not only is the story rich in theological symbolism, it has great application for all of us who from time to time find ourselves feeling all […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Maxwell Maltz is credited with the quote, “You make mistakes; mistakes don’t make you!” That’s not true. Our mistakes will contribute negatively to who we are if we don’t learn from them. As we are seeing in our study in our study in Genesis, Esau was a profane man because he didn’t learn from his mistakes, and so he only compounded them. So what we want to do today as we look at his failures is to learn from his […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Samuel Butler once wrote these lines about the worldly man: For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Esau was a man who had little or no regard for the truth of the Lord. All he cared about were the things of this world, and today as we finish our study on chapter 27 of Genesis, we are going to see the cost Esau paid for his carnality. Here was this man who “sucked this […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

All of you have heard the old saying. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” In today’s lesson in Genesis 27, we are going to watch all the members of Isaac’s family participating in weaving a web of deception that is going to result in the virtual break up of their family. There are a lot of lessons that we can learn today about how family members are not to treat one another; but […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

One of the major problems that besets the human race is that we have selective hearing when it comes to the spiritual word of God. In other words, we only hear what we want to and ignore the rest. As we will see in today’s lesson in Genesis 27, all of the main characters had selective hearing. And because of that spiritual issue they caused themselves all sorts of problems in the physical realm of life.  We certainly can learn […]