The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.
The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
Psalm 145.8-9

We are excited to be starting a new sermon series this Sunday. The Bible is full of stories of God’s faithfulness to even the most unlikely of people. We are going to look at some of the people we meet in the Book of Genesis who were part of God’s story, some of whom may be less familiar to us. We will see how God remained faithful to them and worked through them, even when they seemed unimportant or got things wrong. We hope that this will encourage us as we are reminded that God is faithful to us and can work through us too.

Our Faithful God: stories of God’s faithfulness

Sunday 22nd June God’s faithfulness to Adam and Eve
readings: Genesis 3.21-4.1; Psalm 145
Adam and Eve’s disobeyed God and so they were banished from the Garden of Eden. However, God continued to care for them by providing them with clothes and enabling them to be the fruitful people he commanded them to be.

Sunday 29th June God’s faithfulness to Cain
readings: Genesis 4.1-18; Psalm 34.8-20
Cain was Adam and Eve’s eldest son and is famous for being the first murderer in the Bible. God heard his cry for help and gave him protection and then a family of his own.

Sunday 6th July God’s faithfulness to Seth
readings: Genesis 4.25-5.8; Psalm 89.1-8
Seth is the son God gave Adam and Eve after the murder of Abel. He is the ancestor of both Noah and Jesus and therefore a vital link in God’s restoration plan for his world.

Sunday 13th July God’s faithfulness to Hagar
readings: Genesis 21.8-21; Psalm 36.5-9
Hagar was misused by Abraham and Sarah but God saw her, heard her cries and provided for both her and her son Ishmael. Although her son was not the one through whom God would build his chosen people, Ishmael was loved and cared for by God.

Sunday 20th July God’s faithfulness to Leah
readings: Genesis 29.16-35; Psalm 145.1-21
Jacob had been tricked into marrying Leah when he wanted to marry her beautiful younger sister Rachel. God saw that Leah was not loved and gave her children which at the time was one way in which people saw God’s blessing on someone. The names Leah gave her children show that she knew that God had heard her cries.

Sunday 27th July God’s faithfulness to Esau
Readings: Genesis 36.1-8; Psalm 127
Esau sold his rights as the eldest son to his younger brother Jacob for a portion of stew which caused great division in his family. God restored Esau’s relationship with his brother and made him the father of a great nation, the Edomites.