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  • Daniel Habben avatar

    Touched By An Angel Series

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Aug 1, 2006
    based on 10 ratings
     | 4,640 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

  • Gary Stebbins avatar

    Gates Of Heaven

    Contributed by Gary Stebbins on Feb 24, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,759 views

    Jacob wrestled with issues of faith. Would he take the God of his father and grandfather to be his God? As Jacob was running from his brother Esau, God opened up to him the gates of heaven.

    Introduction Look at story of Jacob’s dream- general sense/what is God saying/doing in the earth now, here at COTR. Jacob’s Dream Gen 28:10-22 Gen 28:10 (who were Abraham, Isaac, Esau?) Jacob- on a journey by himself, alone, apart from family, running for his life. Jacob- deceiver- facing the ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Jeffrey Dillinger avatar

    Stairway To Heaven

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 22, 2007
    based on 17 ratings
     | 9,394 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

  • Charles Salmon avatar

    The Stairway To Heaven Series

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 14, 2007
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,522 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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    Surely The Lord Is In This Place

    Contributed by Richard Hosea on Jan 21, 2007
    based on 16 ratings
     | 23,433 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

  • Robert Higgins avatar

    Meeting God In Dreams Series

    Contributed by Robert Higgins on Nov 13, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,485 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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    Bethel, A Picture Of True Worship

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Feb 16, 2007
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,446 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

  • Mark Schaeufele avatar

    A Rock, A Vision, And A Response Series

    Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Aug 11, 2006
    based on 24 ratings
     | 8,781 views

    God is the vision giver, but we have to be the vision receivers!

    A Rock, A Vision, and A Response Text: Gen. 28:10-22 Introduction 1. Read Gen. 28:10-22 2. Illustration: Sometimes small churches look at themselves and say, “Oh, we can’t do this and we can’t do that because we are too small. We don’t have the resources.” And their vision gets limited by ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Things Are Not What They Seem

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 16, 2004
    based on 101 ratings
     | 17,573 views

    If we are to understand what is happening around us, we need: 1. New eyes to see. 2. New ears to hear. 3. A new heart to believe.

    We have just read about a man named Jacob who checked into what some have called “The Hard Rock Hotel.” He had a vision which turned his ordinary world into the extraordinary. He saw something that he had not seen before, but which was there all the time. He would never have believed it in his ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

  • Douglas Vincent avatar

    God's Promise Our Response Series

    Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Mar 17, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,149 views

    When I read this next section on Jacob’s ladder, God’s Promise and Jacobs response.

    Genesis 28:10-22 Esau has exposed the fraud to Isaac and is making plans to kill Jacob; Rebekah has discovered the plot and found a way of escape, sending Jacob to seek a wife among her own people. Jacob get sent with his Fathers blessing. But now he has to be wondering. He has the birthright and ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Sound Speech

    Contributed by J. Yeargin on Nov 4, 2005
    based on 9 ratings
     | 3,995 views

    How could anyone ever love someone like Jacob? Is spite of who you are, what you have done right, what you have done wrong, God has not given up on you!

    THE BETHEL EXPERIENCE INTRODUCTION: We have studied in detail the ups and downs of the Old Testament family of Isaac, Rebekah, Esau and Jacob. Perhaps we feel fortunate we don’t have the kind of problems they had. Or maybe some of us wish family could have been more like them. I want to look ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Ron Hicks avatar

    Let's Get Back To Our Senses

    Contributed by Ron Hicks on Sep 1, 2005
    based on 16 ratings
     | 4,061 views

    When was the last time that you sensed God’s presence in your life?

    LET’S GET BACK TO OUR SENSES Gen 28:16 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place ; and I knew it not. My heart is burdened this morning. I feel that we have allowed complacency to creep in. Maybe not on purpose, but maybe by carelessness. (too busy, too ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Tim Parsons avatar

    Missing God

    Contributed by Tim Parsons on May 29, 2006
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,198 views

    This sermon deals with being so busy we miss God in our very present’s.

    Missing God. Gen:28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. A modern day "version" of that statement would sound like this. {GOD WAS HERE AND I WAS OUT TO LUNCH} QUESTION? Has any one here ever Missed God? God comes near us, ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • AL Edmonds avatar

    A Call Back To Bethel

    Contributed by Al Edmonds on Jan 2, 2006
    based on 9 ratings
     | 8,157 views

    God has not limited His presence of activities to a building or to a calendar.

    Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, had a life-changing experience at Bethel (House of God). He had a vision of a staircase reaching into heavens with the angels of God "ascending and descending on it" (Genesis 28:12). The Bible said that he called the name of that place Bethel, "the house of God" ...read more

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    Denomination: Apostolic

  • Tom Owen avatar

    Genesis 38 Series

    Contributed by Tom Owen on Aug 6, 2009
    based on 4 ratings
     | 5,427 views

    verse-by-verse

    When you were a kid did you ever run away from home? Maybe one of your kids? I read a story about a 5-year old who decided to run away. His neighbor lady saw him go, as she worked in her garden. There he trudged down the sidewalk, past her house, hauling a little suitcase in his red wagon. He ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist