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  • Colin Coombs avatar

    God With Us - As Seen In The Life Of Jacob

    Contributed by Colin Coombs on Mar 18, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,959 views

    A brief look at some important points in the life of Jacob relating to the presence of God with him. The Provision; The Promise; The Proving and The Pronouncement.

    GOD WITH US AS SEEN IN THE LIFE OF JACOB I. I AM WITH THEE – THE PROVISION Genesis 28:I5 [NIV] I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Genesis 28:15 [BBE] And truly, I will ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Stairway To Heaven

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 22, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 8,697 views

    Jacob saw a stairway (ladder) to heaven. What was that dream all about? What, or who is the ladder leading to heaven? This sermon is based on a lesson by Patrick Mead of Rochester Hills, MI.

    NOTE: This lesson is based upon a sermon I heard Patrick Mead preach. Patrick preaches in Rochester Hills, MI. Stairway To Heaven (Gen. 28:12-22) Introduction: A. Have you ever seen the Indiana Jones movies? I just watched the “making of” each of those movies and decided I wanted to watch ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Daniel Habben avatar

    Touched By An Angel Series

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Aug 1, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,931 views

    Through his dream, Jacob receives a glimpse of reality that God is always near and that his Word will always cheer no matter how lonely our pligrimage to heaven may seem.

    “Touched by an Angel” is a popular family show about heavenly beings sent to earth to help people with their problems. How would you categorize a TV show starring angels? Would you call it fiction or reality TV? It all depends what you believe about angels doesn’t it? On our episode of “Jake TV” ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Mark Schaeufele avatar

    A Rock, A Vision, And A Response Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Aug 11, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 7,617 views

    God is the vision giver, but we have to be the vision receivers!

    A Rock, A Vision, and A Response Text: Gen. 28:10-22 Introduction 1. Read Gen. 28:10-22 2. Illustration: Sometimes small churches look at themselves and say, “Oh, we can’t do this and we can’t do that because we are too small. We don’t have the resources.” And their vision gets limited by ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Jonathan Twitchell avatar

    Nearer, My God, To Thee Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 29 ratings
     | 12,770 views

    When we are most in need of a "Close Encounter with the Divine," is when we should look for God to build a ladder to us, that we might experience His grace and guidance.

    Texts: Genesis 28:10-22 Date: Sunday, July 21, 2002 Author: Rev. Jonathan K. Twitchell Last week, we watched Esau trade in his birthright for a simple bowl of red stew. Overcome by hunger, he gave into his selfish, deceitful younger brother Jacob and traded the double portion of his father’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • Gary Stebbins avatar

    Gates Of Heaven

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Feb 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,947 views

    Jacob wrestled with issues of faith. Would he take the God of his father and grandfather to be his God? As Jacob was running from his brother Esau, God opened up to him the gates of heaven.

    Introduction Look at story of Jacob’s dream- general sense/what is God saying/doing in the earth now, here at COTR. Jacob’s Dream Gen 28:10-22 Gen 28:10 (who were Abraham, Isaac, Esau?) Jacob- on a journey by himself, alone, apart from family, running for his life. Jacob- deceiver- facing the ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Timothy Dolan avatar

    Greater Things Than These Series

    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Mar 20, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,393 views

    What application could Jacob’s struggles have for us today. A look at a ladder, Jacob, and even Nathanial help us to understand that God is there for us and knows everything.

    GREATER THINGS THAN THESE Genesis 28:10-22 WHO WAS JACOB? Verses 10-11 Was he a traveling salesman?...why was he going from Beer-sheba to Haran? 1.He was looking for a wife. He was told by his father not to take a wife from the Canaanite people, so he had to ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Raymond Smith avatar

    Abraham, A Man Challenged #14 Series

    Contributed by Raymond Smith on Jan 20, 2008
     | 1,881 views

    God’s response to Integrity

    Abraham, a man of Challenge, Faith and Promise God’s response to Integrity Reading: Genesis 28:1ff Last time we looked at "God’s Response to Intercession," along with the call of our Lord to this fellowship to strong prayer. Abraham has now moved from Hebron, he has come into the country ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Robert Higgins avatar

    Meeting God In Dreams Series

    Contributed by Robert Higgins on Nov 13, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,650 views

    Dreams can be a place of encounter with God. He desires to speak to us and sometimes that is the only place our will is not interfering with His voice.

    Encountering God – Part 12 – Jacob Meets God in a Dream Context: Gen 28:1-5 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him and commanded him: "Do not marry a Canaanite woman. 2 Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Craig Benner avatar

    De Betel A El-Betel

    Contributed by Craig Benner on Aug 25, 2007
    based on 8 ratings
     | 7,220 views

    Cuando la casa de Dios no te rinde todo, acude al Dios de la casa de Dios

    Gen. 28:16-19 16 ¶ Jacob despertó de su sueño y dijo: --¡Ciertamente Jehovah está presente en este lugar, y yo no lo sabía! 17 El tuvo miedo y dijo: --¡Cuán temible es este lugar! No es otra cosa que casa de Dios y puerta del cielo. 18 Jacob se levantó muy de mañana, tomó la piedra que había puesto ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Peter Loughman avatar

    Discouragement: Running From My Past

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,503 views

    Jacob like us, runs from his sins. special thanks to Randy Stonehill, the best old time Christian rocker. Don’t let sin steal who God made you to be.

    Keep Me Running…From The Sins I Can’t Erase, once you compromise your soul…your lost in the desert. We face times in our life when we are discouraged and despairing because our future seems so uncertain. Life may be falling apart as a result of our own wrong decisions (like Jacob in our Scripture) ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Christopher Goelzer avatar

    Live The Vision

    Contributed by Christopher Goelzer on Jan 20, 2004
    based on 37 ratings
     | 4,398 views

    Encourage and empower beleivers to live according to God’s promises

    NIV Genesis 28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God 22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

  • Charles Salmon avatar

    The Stairway To Heaven Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 14, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 4,792 views

    Christ is our stairway to Heaven, the NT fulfillment to Jacob’s ladder.

    The Stairway to God Gen. 28:12 Scrip. Reading: Gen 28:10-22 INTRO.: Summarize the story of Jacob’s life. He was a schemer and a climber. Traits he evidently learned from his mother. Her scheming get him in trouble and he is now fleeing for his life from his brother. The stairway symbolizes his ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Charles Holt avatar

    Jacob's Night In The Hardrock Motel

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Aug 19, 2001
    based on 185 ratings
     | 39,163 views

    When Jacob finds himself alone with his pillow a stone he has an encounter with the Lord. We talk about being "between a rock and a hard place" and how we can triumph even when things are tough.

    Charles W. Holt email: cholt@gt.rr.com JACOB’S NIGHT IN THE "HARDROCK MOTEL" Genesis 28 Just this week I have had two separate individuals on two separate occasions tell me, when speaking of their trying circumstances and having to make tough decisions, "I feel so alone, I feel I have no one to ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Jeff Strite avatar

    Leaving A Spiritual Inheritance

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 29, 2003
    based on 67 ratings
     | 14,110 views

    God gave Jacob a powerful dream and an impressive promise. But Jacob didn’t deserve either. What he received, he received because of a spiritual inheritance for a greater man of faith.

    OPEN: During the Persian Gulf War, a soldier was assigned to go to Saudi Arabia. As he was saying good-bye to his family, his three-year-old son was holding on to his leg and pleading with him not to leave. "No, Daddy, please don’t go!" he kept repeating. We were beginning to make a scene when my ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ