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  • Rodney Kelley avatar

    Monument Of Relationship Series

    Contributed by Rodney Kelley on Mar 24, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,821 views

    First sermon of a six part series. I glean illustrations from multiple places. Many are not my own.

    Monuments of Grace - Sermon One - The Monument of Relationship- Gen 28:10-22 Intro. A monument is a stone or a building that is set up to remember a person or an event. On July 3, 1775, he took on what was thought to be an impossible task. He became the commander of an army of rag-tag ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Stairway To Heaven

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 22, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 9,387 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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    Jacob's Dream

    Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Aug 29, 2008
    based on 7 ratings
     | 15,519 views

    Jacob’s dream helps us to realize that at the most difficult time’s of our life, God desires to speak to us with positive results.

    SC 8/30/2008 Jacob’s dream Genesis chapter 28:1-22 Disclaimer- This sermon is from private study and resources ...read more

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    Denomination: Nazarene

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    Meeting God In Dreams Series

    Contributed by Robert Higgins on Nov 13, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,480 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

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    The Stairway To Heaven Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 14, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,516 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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    Greater Things Than These Series

    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Mar 20, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,503 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

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    Jacob's Night In The Hardrock Motel

    Contributed by Charles Holt on Aug 19, 2001
    based on 185 ratings
     | 42,229 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

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    Rock Bottom

    Contributed by Derrick Strickland on Jun 5, 2003
    based on 88 ratings
     | 16,210 views

    Discover the power and the potential in those "Rock Bottom" experiences

    “Rock Bottom” Genesis 28:10-16 INTRO: 1. I like the way the KJV introduces us to this place… “certain place.” a. I want to take a little ecclesiastical license here and tell you that there’s no place in life that is as certain as that place where you hit ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Jeff Strite avatar

    Leaving A Spiritual Inheritance

    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jun 29, 2003
    based on 67 ratings
     | 15,382 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

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    Bethel, A Picture Of True Worship

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Feb 16, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,445 views

    This sermon show us a picture of the way true worship should be in a Christian’s life.

    “Bethel, A picture of True Worship” Worship: 1. A reverent love and respect for a deity of sacred object. 2. Love of or devotion to a person or thing. (American Heritage Dictionary) Worship: 2. A reverence toward God, a god, or a ...read more

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    Denomination: *other

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    Touched By An Angel Series

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Aug 1, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,632 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

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    Surely The Lord Is In This Place

    Contributed by Richard Hosea on Jan 21, 2007
    based on 16 ratings
     | 23,414 views

    To help the congregation to practice the presence of God.

    Surely the Lord is in this Place Gen. 28:10-22 I don’t need to elaborate on the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But here is a snapshot of a little backgroung of their lives The whole family was prone to deceive people. Abraham told the Egyptians his wife was his sister Gen. 12:19ff. Isaac ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Daniel Olukoya avatar

    When Heavens Become Brass

    Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Jul 21, 2004
    based on 134 ratings
     | 63,525 views

    The more clearly we see God’s sovereignty the less perplexed we are by man’s calamities, know that those who bless God in their trials will be blessed by God through their trials.

    The message of this week is for those who believe in the God of the suddenlies, those who know that no matter how fast the enemy has been running, just a word from the Master is enough to halt his race. After all, in the beginning, when the earth was without form and void all that was required to ...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
     | 4,107 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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    Nearer, My God, To Thee Series

    Contributed by Jonathan Twitchell on Dec 7, 2006
    based on 29 ratings
     | 13,908 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