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  • Jeffrey Dillinger avatar

    Stairway To Heaven

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 22, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 9,463 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

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    The Stairway To Heaven Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 14, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,579 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

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    The Labor Of Love Series

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 19, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,850 views

    Couples, Pt. 4

    THE LABOR OF LOVE (GENESIS 29:9-35) One of the best quotes on love I know of comes from Liz Carpenter. She said, “Love is a moment and a lifetime. It is looking at him across a room and feeling that if I don’t send the rest of my life with him, I’ll have missed the boat.” More than 66 percent of ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

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    Wrestling With The Father…and Winning! Series

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
    based on 14 ratings
     | 20,014 views

    God desires for us to wrestle with Him in order to shape us into the people He wants us to become

    I don’t have some clever fact or story or joke to start this sermon. Nothing can top the text itself: Genesis 32:22-32 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Discouragement: Running From My Past

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,170 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

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    Sin: Separation Anxiety

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,757 views

    God will let unpleasant things happen in our life to move us on spiritually

    Intro Story – swimming lessons. When I was about six years old I took swimming lessons one summer Remember, what it was like? I was scared – but it wasn’t so bad. We started by blowing bubbles, splashing in the pool, Dog paddle, pushing off from the side of the pool. The Instructor is always there ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Surrender: Smack Down 2005

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,092 views

    What is it going to cost you, surrendering to God?

    William Borden. Heir to the Borden Dairy Estate, graduated from high School in 1904 a millionaire. His parents gave him a trip around the world, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He wrote home saying, I’m going to give my life to prepare for the mission field. When he made his decision, he wrote ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Jacob, How Big Is Your God?

    Contributed by Peter Pharis on Jun 17, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,897 views

    This is a Father’s day sermon concerning Jacob’s return from Haran. It asks is your God big enough to deliver from danger, forgive and keep His promises.

    A businessman suffered some financial losses at the same time when his wife was seriously ill. He came home one day, discouraged and respondent. His five-year-old daughter, sensing her father’s mood, gave him a hug and said, "Yesterday in Sunday school, my teacher said that God raised Jesus back ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When You Fail To Trust God

    Contributed by Norris Harris I on Jun 22, 2007
    based on 80 ratings
     | 34,054 views

    This message deals with the consequences of our failure to trust God based on the experience of Jacob. Be Blessed!

    It is my contention that the contents of verses 15-30 conveys the conviction that Jacob had a Serious Problem With Trusting God. The basis for that conclusion is grounded on the fact that here was a man, who with his mother, had conspired, schemed and tricked both his father and brother out of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Blessings From God

    Contributed by Caleb Bolton on Nov 30, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,002 views

    Our Prayer life is what determines the blessing.

    Tonight I want to talk to you about how to obtain the life that God wants you to have. Tonight I want to talk to you about two individuals that had something in common. These two men lived on this earth hundreds of years apart from one another yet they met each other one night. While on earth ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Jacob And The Blessing Series

    Contributed by Rik Wadge on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 26,259 views

    Part IV of a six week series demonstrating how God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

    Story: The phrase “God Bless you” is said to have been originated by St. Gregory the Great, in the year 594 AD. +He appointed a formal prayer to be said to people who sneezed. At that time it was believed that the air was filled with dangerous impurities and that those who sneezed violently were ...read more

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    Denomination: Bible Church

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    Nearer, My God, To Thee Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 29 ratings
     | 14,021 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

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    Standing On The Promises Of God Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 21 ratings
     | 19,825 views

    When the "realities" around us seem to crumble and fall, we must rely upon the "Kingdom Realities" of God’s promises.

    Texts: Genesis 29:15-30 Date: Sunday, July 28, 2002 Author: Rev. Jonathan K. Twitchell The floor I lived on my Freshman year in college was known for pranks. Oh, I didn’t get too involved, playing pranks on other people was never really my idea of a good time, but the guys on Second Shields ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

  • David Smith avatar

    Jacob Wrestles With God - A Reflection On Genesis 32

    Contributed by David Smith on Dec 21, 2006
    based on 19 ratings
     | 23,482 views

    Father Dave’s Sermon on wrestling with God. Real growth experiences always involve struggle and pain. And so Jacob, at the turning point of his life, wrestles all night with a dark and shadowy figure by the river Jabbok. He struggles. He fights. He is wo

    "Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. (25) When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. (26) Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I ...read more

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    Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

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    Hidden Gods

    Contributed by Johnny Carver on Jul 27, 2007
    based on 14 ratings
     | 6,924 views

    There are great dangers in keeping things hidden in our life that gets between us and God and robs us of our success.

    Scripture: Gen. 31: Title: “Gods Under The Saddle” Introduction: God spoken to Jacob and told him to leave Laban and return to the land of his fathers. (v. 3, 13) Jacob explained to his wives why he was leaving and how that God had blessed him with prosperity. (v. 1, 2) Jacob was finally ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal