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Every good story has a Before, a Meeting, and an After, and this Sunday we’re telling the biggest one there is: God’s story. Come hear how the greatest news in history became good news for you, and walk away confidently knowing exactly how to tell it to someone else this week.
Robert Garon shares what he experienced during ten days in Greece this past June with our EFM Luke 10 team. A man, named David, thought he was in control of his life until he had a vision of Jesus who said, "Try and control me." An Iranian woman described finding Jesus after fleeing for her life, and has since helped thousands of refugees receive free medical care and planted a church in Athens. Those stories and more will be shared. Our prayer is that the Holy Spirit stirs something fresh in all of us, the way he's already moving in Greece.
The book of Genesis spans fifty chapters, two phases, and one unrelenting big idea — God is the God of overcoming obstacles. In this capstone message, Pastor Robert Garon walks through the entire story from creation to Joseph's bones, showing how every obstacle God faced, he overcame, and why that changes everything for us today.
This week in the Genesis story the brothers who sold Joseph into slavery are now bowing before him in Egypt and they have no idea who he is, but Joseph recognizes every one of them. He tests and watches them to see if they have changed from the vicious aggressors they once were. Judah steps forward and his transformation is evident, but what about the others? This week Robert Garon unpacks Genesis chapters 42–46, asking what it looks like when God uses the worst thing that ever happened to you to save the very people who caused it.
Pastor, writer, and chocolate-loving disciple-maker based in Sherwood, Oregon. I help followers of Jesus say “yes” at a whole new level. Subscribe to The Deeper Yes at thedeeperyes.substack.com.