#Genesis

Jan 31, 20223 min read

Give Your First and Your Best, Not the Rest

In Exodus 13, Israel is coming out of 400 years of captivity, and Moses wants to lay out some foundational principles for them in this...

Jan 3, 20225 min read

Surviving Sodom: Four Lessons From Lot

When Lot chose the land to the East when Abraham went the opposite direction, no one could blame him. Genesis 13:10 says the land he...

Sep 3, 20203 min read

Follow Jesus, Expect Suffering

There’s a reason prosperity gospel preachers don’t spend much time preaching from 1 Peter. In talking about experiencing hardship and...

Aug 17, 20203 min read

Christians: Don’t Date Non-Christians

There are many purposes for marriage, but according to Jesus in Mark 10, the immediate reason God created marriage is the need for...

Jul 31, 20193 min read

Why We Would Have Made the Same Choice as Adam

The fourth-century philosopher St. Augustine wasn’t raised as a Christian, and he ran with a pretty sketchy crowd as a teen. They...

Jul 15, 20194 min read

A Dangerous Taste of Genesis 1

Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...

Nov 27, 20174 min read

The Hagar Lesson: What to Do While Waiting on God’s Promise

When Abraham and Sarah believed the promise that God would give them a son, they didn’t get pregnant immediately. In fact, there was a...

Jun 5, 20174 min read

Four Ways Husbands Should Lead

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of...