Verse by Verse

God's plan involves chosen individuals to fulfill His purpose, emphasizing free will, love, and redemption. Critiques Calvinist predestination, highlights faith in Jesus.

Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 24:62-25:6, focusing on Isaac's meditation, Rebekah's modesty, Abraham's genealogy, inheritance distribution, and Jesus' unique sacrifice.

Abraham's servant finds Rebekah for Isaac, guided by prayer and signs. Emphasizes faith, divine guidance, and reliance on Scripture over seeking signs. Rebekah's choice and blessings highlight familial and spiritual themes.

Genesis 22-24 highlights Abraham's lineage, Rebekah's role, Sarah's significance, and the cultural context of concubinage. It underscores women's roles, marriage's biblical theme, and Abraham's faith in securing Canaan land and a wife for Isaac, ensuring lineage continuity.

Shawn's teaching highlights Abraham's faith, obedience, and God's provision, emphasizing faith's role in love and liberty, using biblical narratives and the Abrahamic covenant.

Shawn's teaching interprets "tempt" in Genesis 22 as "test," showing God's trials as faith tests, not enticements. Abraham's story exemplifies faith, trust, and prioritizing God.

Genesis 21 highlights Isaac's birth, Sarah and Hagar's tension, Ishmael's future, and Abraham's faith. Themes include spiritual growth, God's guidance, and covenant at Beersheba.

Abraham's deception, God's intervention with Abimelech, emphasizes divine guidance, integrity, and spiritual growth, highlighting patience, truth, and agape love.

Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 19:15-38, focusing on God's mercy and urgency in Lot's escape, Lot's daughters' actions, divine intervention, and the importance of obedience.

Abraham intercedes for Sodom; Lot shows hospitality to angels. Shawn's teaching emphasizes hospitality, condemns homosexuality, and stresses faith and reconciliation through Christ.

Shawn's teaching covers Genesis 18-19, focusing on Sodom and Gomorrah, divine promises, and moral judgments. He challenges Trinitarian views, emphasizing angels as God's representatives.

Shawn's teaching examines Genesis 18-19, focusing on Sodom and Gomorrah, Sarah's laughter, Lot's actions, and divine messengers as God's representatives, not preincarnate Jesus.

Circumcision and baptism symbolize dedication but require heart transformation. True faith, love, and spiritual growth are essential, transcending rituals. Abraham's faith exemplifies joy and commitment.

Covenant with God and Abraham; spiritual growth is divine, not human-driven. Emphasizes humility, faith over law, spiritual over physical transformation, and heart's circumcision.

Paul's allegory in Galatians 4 contrasts Hagar's bondage with Sarah's freedom, symbolizing liberation through faith in Christ and the heavenly Jerusalem, not the Law.

Believers are adopted as God's heirs through faith, not merit, moving from servitude to freedom in Christ. Spiritual maturity involves embracing God's guidance over human efforts.

Hagar's divine encounter highlights faith over law, paralleling Paul's teachings. Shawn emphasizes spiritual maturity, adoption as God's children, and freedom in Christ.

The teaching explores the "angel of the Lord" as the preincarnate Christ, supporting a binitarian view of God, and discusses Ishmael's role in divine plans across faiths.

Genesis 16 highlights Sarai offering Hagar to Abram, leading to conflict and prophecy. Shawn's teaching emphasizes monogamy, gender equality in Christ, and women's roles.

Shawn's teaching explores Abram's covenant with God, symbolic rituals, and contrasts Old and New Covenants, emphasizing faith, sacrifice, and spiritual transformation.

Faith is confidence in God's promises, essential for righteousness, exemplified by biblical figures. Genuine faith, as per James, is shown through love and actions.

Shawn's teaching focuses on Abraham's faith, reliance on God, and spiritual inheritance. It highlights themes of divine promise, spiritual fulfillment, and faith as a conscious choice.

Shawn's teaching highlights Melchizedek's eternal priesthood as a precursor to Christ's, superior to the Levitical order, emphasizing unity, equality, and a new covenant.

Shawn's teaching highlights that tithing isn't mandatory in Christianity, emphasizing freewill giving from the heart, guided by personal conviction, not legalistic demands.

Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest, prefigures Christ's eternal priesthood, symbolizing peace and righteousness. His role highlights Jesus' superior, timeless priesthood.

Abram and Lot part ways; Lot chooses fertile Jordan near Sodom, Abram stays in Canaan. God promises Abram land and descendants. Melchizedek blesses Abram. Faith over materialism.

Abram's journey in Canaan, marked by altars and divine promises, reflects faith and spiritual growth. His actions in Egypt show human weakness or strategic faith. Emphasizes humility, peace, and living with God's guidance.

The teaching examines Genesis 11's genealogy, focusing on Abram's role in God's plan, his journey of faith, and the spiritual significance of biblical genealogies and narratives.

Shawn's teaching on Genesis 10:15-32 and the Tower of Babel highlights the dangers of human ambition and unity without God, emphasizing divine intervention and spiritual unity.