Category: Sermon Thoughts

  • Baptist Faith & Message Statement on Religious Liberty

    Genesis is part of a network or family of churches called Great Commission Baptists or Southern Baptists.  This family of churches is united around a set of core belief called the Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M), a document that was updated in the year 2000 which articulates the doctrinal and cultural convictions of the churches…

  • Developing a Culture of Evangelism – Part 3, Loving Engagement

    First of all, my apologies.  Didn’t mean to take a two week break in writing these.  But you know, life and summer.  Anyway, this is the third installment of a series of posts I am writing about developing an evangelistic culture as a church after preaching on the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch…

  • Acts: To Be Continued… – Study Guide

    We are beginning our study of the book of Acts this Sunday.  At Genesis the majority of our preaching is through books of the Bible.  No way we can cover all the material from the book in our sermons, so I wrote this study guide with background information about this amazing book.  Want to encourage…

  • It’s Friday, But Sundays Comin’

    Pastor Mike quoted this Easter meditation by S.M. Lockridge (1913-2000), pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in San Diego from 1953 to 1993 in the sermon this morning. It’s Friday Jesus is praying Peter’s a sleeping Judas is betraying But Sunday’s comin’ It’s Friday Pilate’s struggling The council is conspiring The crowd is vilifying They don’t…

  • Study Guide and Sermon Plan for upcoming Esther Series

    This Sunday, August 15, we will be starting a new series on the Old Testament book and story of Esther.  Pastor Mike has prepared a study guide with an overview of the book as well as the plan for our upcoming sermons.  You can find it here. Esther Study Guide The book of Esther is…