Biblically-based teachings from services held at Eternity Church where we are gathering the nations to worship and imitate Christ. Come worship with us Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at 1200 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond VA 23227 http://www.eternitychurch.org/
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A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. It’s been said that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This is painfully true. More than we might care to admit, we approach complicated tasks ill-equipped and—not sure what to do—we start swinging our proverbial hammers. When God blesses us, we nail down His goodness in our lives with the hammer of praise. But when we experience…
A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. We’ve been to the moon, amazing 238,855 miles from earth! A few months ago, astronauts circled the moon again, and it was hailed as a great achievement. And it is! But every time we step out into space or live for protracted periods of time on the International Space Station, I can’t help but remember that we’ve yet to reach the bottom of the ocean’s depth in…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. We need to learn from lament. From Leah to Lamentations, from Israel’s ancient patriarchs to the Church’s Apostles, we are embraced by the grace of lament. When we strive to live endlessly happy (unrealistic) lives, we miss the grace of lament which seasons our prayer life. Put it this way: biblically, we have a whole spice rack available, but we only…
A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. We surprise ourselves with pain when we ignore the grace of lament. We close our ears to the voice of grief and suffering in a naïve hope that what’s out of sight will remain out of mind. We read the Bible like a bouncing ball, alighting on the passages we find encouraging and rush past the others we find discouraging. We love to find ourselves with the Lord…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. I never tire of seeing God at work in our lives. Too often (like most), I only want to see the ends, but the means are where the details shine. Leah’s life is a testimony to this. She grew up in a dysfunctional family, the daughter of father who never saw her worth, treating her as a commodity for his financial future. She spent the early years of her…
A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont. What does it look like to be rewarded by God? So far in our “Leah Beloved” series, Brett has shown the ways in which Leah’s story demonstrated to the Exodus Generation that God sees, hears, and responds to his people according to “ways and means” different from our own! This week we will look at the birth of a fifth son to Leah. She celebrates him as God’s…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. An amazing thing happened between the birth of Levi and the birth of Judah. It’s as if something finally clicked into place for Leah. For at least the first three to six years of her marriage to Jacob, Leah exhausted herself. She was the tradwife par excellence with nothing to show for it. We can hear the desperation in her prayers. Everything in her…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. I think the deeper we step into the story of Leah, the more we find a mirror image of ourselves. We all long to be seen, especially by those closest to us, and we all want to be heard. It can be deeply frustrating when we feel our words are falling flat all around us, unheard. We all want to be held, not just physically, but emotionally. We…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. The Bible is full of so many amazing stories! Obvious right?! Okay, but humor me for a moment. The mind reels as we read of the cosmos created. The pulse races as the rain beats against the side of the ark and then lifts it up into the waves. The heart swells when Noah and his family stand again on solid ground gazing at the rainbow, the soaring symbol…
A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. As I’ve been praying and preparing the summer series for our youth, following the repeating imagery of God’s presence in fire, I'm struck afresh by the faithfulness of God to us across the ages. In the Old Testament, at one of Abraham’s lowest moments, God anchored His promise to the patriarch by making a covenant with Abraham; one for which the Lord…
