Genesis 45:16 - 47:12 Are you settled and content regarding where God has you in life? As for Joseph, God had finally brought about reconciliation between him and his siblings. God’s ultimate goal was to restore and unify Jacob's family (Israel) and establish them as the people of God. But to make God’s plan complete, Jacob would need to be united again with all his sons, including Joseph! In this message, we will see the process that God takes Jacob through to restore him to his whole family. Jacob will have four different meetings and in each one we will see that he reacts in such a way that he is convinced of God’s active involvement and direction in his life.

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God’s Plan Fulfilled

Genesis 43:15 - 45:15 After twenty years in Egypt Joseph still had every right to get even with his brothers. It was because of their betrayal that he had suffered for so many years. And Joseph had the authority to imprison and even execute them. But instead of judgment and retribution, we will see Joseph offers his brothers forgiveness! We will see Joseph forgive those who had harmed him and we will learn some valuable lessons on forgiveness.

Lesson on Forgiveness

Genesis 42:1-28 Joseph started his life with a revelation from God but he did not understand the interpretation or application. In this message we will start to see what it all meant and how he was supposed to use it. This will teach us how to make sense of God's process in our lives and our response.

Dreams for Blessing

Genesis 41:38-57 God expects his people to have faith and honor Him in the hard times as well as in prosperous times. For many people, it’s easier to relate to those who are hurting than to rejoice with those people who are abundantly blessed by God with material things. For some people, there might be envy or even suspicion of how people obtained their success. In this message, we will take a look at how Joseph handled success and prosperity, yet remained faithful as a godly man.

Honoring God in Success

Genesis 41:1-57 The biblical account of Joseph is an amazing story of God at work in a person’s life. Through Joseph’s example, we learn some incredible lessons about waiting on God. God allows His people to go through seasons of waiting and He never wastes there periods of time. Instead, He uses waiting in our lives for His good purpose. As we look at Joseph’s life we discover that God used the time of his waiting to mold and shape him into the man of God he became.

Waiting in Faith

Genesis 39:19-40:23 Young people often have hopes & dreams about what life will look like. At times, hopes & dreams even turn into expectations. Life, though, often has very unexpected twists & turns, detours and bypasses. One Bible character that especially reveals this is Joseph. At the age of 17, he received a couple dreams which somewhat cryptically revealed something about his future. As a result, there had to be expectations of how that would look and feel. There is no way, however, that he could envision how the pathway to fulfillment would look. We continue our journey through Joseph’s life. We will take a look at Joseph in prison and, in the process, see some surprising and encouraging aspects of God working in and through him.

God’s With-ness

Genesis 39:1-23 We will see how Joseph faced a difficult test. He was confronted with the strong temptation to commit sexual sin with a beautiful woman. He resisted the temptation and stood strong to find victory! From Joseph's example, we will learn some valuable lessons on how we can resist and fight temptation when it comes knocking at our door.

Resisting Temptation

Genesis 37:1-36 One of the best and hardest lessons to learn as a Christian is that God is sovereign and in control of all things. He is actively involved in the events of this world and in the events of our lives. God’s active participation is known as Providence. God’s Providence means that He has not abandoned the world that He created, but He works within His creation to manage all things according to His own will. Nowhere is this providential working of God seen more clearly than in the life of Joseph found in the book of Genesis. This message will focus on God’s providential care even when it involves suffering.

Man’s Plan, God’s Way

Genesis 37:1-5 We begin our introduction to our new sermon series entitled "The Hand of God”. Throughout this series, we will learn some valuable lessons about how God's providence works through the life of Joseph. God is active in the lives of His people, even people with a lot of dysfunction. Joseph’s own family ancestry was a mess, and yet we will see God take all these family messes and use them to form and shape Joseph for His good purpose!

Dysfunction Junction

1 Peter 1:13-17 This sermon is the final message in our sermon series entitled, "The God of Wonder." God is a wondrous God who has revealed Himself most fully in His Son, Jesus Christ. In Jesus, God offers His generous grace-filled salvation to all who will believe in Jesus death on the cross and His resurrection. Because of all that God has done for us by His grace we should have a response. The apostle Peter will reveal three ways we should respond to the grace of God found in Jesus Christ.

Responding to Grace

Matthew 20:1-16 “Amazing Grace” is the title of the well-known hymn written by John Newton, the former slave trader turned follower of Jesus. Most of us would probably agree that grace is amazing, but that doesn’t mean that it’s without its surprising, even uncomfortable, elements. We’ll look at a parable of Jesus that gives insights on His kingdom as well as highlighting both the amazing, yet uncomfortable, aspects of His grace.

Amazing, Uncomfortable Grace

John 6:41-71 Although we worship and serve a God of Wonder there are some of His words and some events that come into our lives that can cause us to say, “This is difficult…

Difficult Times & Statements

Luke 7:36-50 One thing is clear about Jesus-- He elicited a reaction everywhere He went. The gospel writers tell us that Jesus regularly left people amazed or astonished. Rarely was there a casual observer who heard and saw Him. Hopefully, we have a similar reaction as we encounter Jesus in the events recorded for us in Scripture. We will look at a story that would have been profoundly shocking in the first-century culture. Come join us as we explore the wonder of Jesus by unpacking the elements of the story recorded in Luke 7:36-50.

Crashing a Pharisaical Dinner Party

Matthew 16:1-27 We will learn how we can experience more of this God of Wonder in our everyday life.

Finding the Wonder

Luke 2:1-21 When we think of Christmas we tend to associate it with happy thoughts and an uplifting story. If you were a first-century person reading about Jesus' birth you would have a completely different expectation. We continue to see how Jesus subverted expectations but also relates to us through that.

A Hebrew Christmas

Recording of the Sunday morning sermon from Calvary Chapel Mission Viejo.

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