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Alathia Community Church no Alathia Community Church Sermons craigmiller@alathia.org ℗ & © 2010 Alathia Community Church 720 Genesis 16 The Birth of Ishmael 1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal. 3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.) 4 So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt. 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she treats me with contempt. The Lord will show who’s wrong—you or me!” 6 Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away. 7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur. 8 The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied. 9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.” 10 Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.” 11 And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of distress. 12 This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.” 13 Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord, who had spoken to her. She said, “You are the God who sees me.” She also said, “Have I truly seen the One who sees me?” 14 So that well was named Beer-lahai-roi (which means “well of the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found between Kadesh and Bered. 15 So Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram named him Ishmael. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Ishmael was born. http://www.alathia.org/sermon/1-sin-followed-by-10000-more http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/one-sin-followed-by-10000-more.mp3 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:16 GMT Paul Dean Genesis 40:18 http://www.alathia.org/sermon/eliezer-will-get-it-all http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/eliezer-will-get-it-all.mp3 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:59:03 GMT Paul Dean Genesis 47:13 Lot is captured and Abram leaves with only 318 men to try and rescue Lot. http://www.alathia.org/sermon/rescuing-lot http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/rescuing-lot.mp3 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:26:07 GMT Paul Dean Genesis abram,lot,melchizedek 47:17 http://www.alathia.org/sermon/lots-choice http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/lots-choice.mp3 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:55:54 GMT Paul Dean Genesis lot,abram,promised_land 40:31 Abram is driven by fear and doesn't trust God to protect him in the face of danger. What can we as followers of Christ learn from Abram's failures and God's grace? http://www.alathia.org/sermon/driven-by-fear http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/driven-by-fear.mp3 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:13:33 GMT Paul Dean Genesis abram,sarai,egypt,fear,faith 34:27 When God called Abram and his family to the promised land, his father Terah began the journey but soon stalled in Haran, never to see the promised land. God is calling us as His church to not stop short of His calling and forsake the idols of our culture sex, money, power (ultimately all about comfort) and submit to discipline and self-discipline to become all the God in Christ has called us to be. http://www.alathia.org/sermon/halfway-faith http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/halfway-faith.mp3 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:25:38 GMT Paul Dean Genesis 46:11 A Promise Kept 1 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2 (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5 He took with him Mary, his fiancée, who was now obviously pregnant. 6 And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7 She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them. 8 That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. 9 Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them. They were terrified, 10 but the angel reassured them. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. 11 The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! 12 And you will recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger.” 13 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, 14 “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.” 15 When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, “Let’s go to Bethlehem! Let’s see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” 16 They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. 17 After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. 18 All who heard the shepherds’ story were astonished, 19 but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. 20 The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them. http://www.alathia.org/sermon/a-promise-kept http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/a-promise-kept.mp3 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:42:07 GMT Paul Dean A Promise Kept 1 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2 (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to ... 44:36 Mike reviews the success of the Highlands Christmas Festival and explores why we our community needs hope. http://www.alathia.org/sermon/the-highlands-christmas-festival-and-the-hope-of-the-world http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/the-highlands-christmas-festival-and-the-hope-of-the-world.mp3 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:50:00 GMT Mike Furubotten Mike reviews the success of the Highlands Christmas Festival and explores why we our community needs hope. 30:29 Genesis 11 1 At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. 2 As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.  3 They began saying to each other, “Let’s make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.) 4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.” 5 But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building. 6 “Look!” he said. “The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them! 7 Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”  8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world. Grace or Judgment?   http://www.alathia.org/sermon/babel http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/12-06-09.mp3 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:24:52 GMT Paul Dean Genesis 39:43 Ephesians 2 http://www.alathia.org/sermon/calling http://www.alathia.org/mediafiles/ephesians-2.mp3 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:08:33 GMT Shawn Stinson Ephesians 2 calling,gospel,north_carolina,redemption 34:45