Biblically-based teachings from services held at Eternity Church where we are gathering the nations to worship and imitate Christ. Come worship with us Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at 1200 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond VA 23227 http://www.eternitychurch.org/
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Biblically-based teachings from services held at Eternity Church where we are gathering the nations to worship and imitate Christ. Come worship with us Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at 1200 Wilmington Avenue, Richmond VA 23227 http://www.eternitychurch.org/
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July 12, 2026
July 5, 2026 - Leah Beloved (6)
<p>A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal.</p><p><br></p><p>I never tire of seeing God at work in our lives. Too often (like most), I only want to see the ends, but the means are where the details shine. Leah’s life is a testimony to this. She grew up in a dysfunctional family, the daughter of father who never saw her worth, treating her as a commodity for his financial future. She spent the early years of her marriage frustrated and alone, praying God would make her husband care and heal the wound of her loveless pain. Leah’s life shows us wounds are where the light shines through. As Leah lamented the injustice of her life, the radiance of God’s presence shone through her, revealing His loving character to her and a thousand generations (Deuteronomy 7.9). </p><p><br></p><p>From the very beginning, God gave Leah a voice. We see this in the name of her children. It’s through this naming that we see the first ray of light shining through the darkness at Judah’s birth. Praising, Leah found her worth rooted in God’s love above and beyond all other relationships. What had been withheld in human deficiency was amply offered in the Lord (Issachar), and to whatever end, God honored her (Zebulun) where others failed.</p><p><br></p><p>It should come as no surprise that the God who uses the weak things of the world to shame the strong would choose Leah, the marginalized matriarch, to bring about His redemptive plan for all humanity (1 Corinthians 1.27)! Through her the Lord gave the Law (through Moses of Levi). Through her descendants Tola (of Issachar) and Elon (of Zebulun) His people lived at peace 33 years during the time of Judges. And through David (of Judah) God built an everlasting throne for His Messiah. And in the fullness of time, in the lands of Zebulun, Jesus would first proclaim the Good News—fulfilling the prophesy of Isaiah—and people who walked in darkness would see a great light! (Isaiah 9.1-2).</p><p><br></p><p>But back up for a second? That’s the ends. Leah never saw any of that. She never saw beyond her days. Her children, the great men and women who shook and shaped the world, came later. All she knew (all we know) was the love of God here and now. And that was enough.</p>
July 12, 2026
June 28, 2026 - Leah Beloved (5)
<p>A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont.</p><p><br></p><p>What does it look like to be rewarded by God? So far in our “Leah Beloved” series, Brett has shown the ways in which Leah’s story demonstrated to the Exodus Generation that God sees, hears, and responds to his people according to “ways and means” different from our own!</p><p> </p><p>This week we will look at the birth of a fifth son to Leah. She celebrates him as God’s reward for having given her servant to her husband as a child bearing surrogate, a cultural practice of the time. But the Genesis text simply states that God listened to her prayer and gave her a son.</p><p> </p><p>God answers our prayers with good gifts that we cannot provide ourselves—safety, peace, new life. Yet when those rewards come, we can make ourselves the center of the equation, thinking that extraordinary things we did prompted God to act more than who he is as a loving father. </p><p> </p><p>What God rewards—more than our works—is our simple dependance on Him. Attaching ourselves more securely to God’s unchanging heart will free us to receive our greatest reward: living from the love of a faithful Heavenly Father.</p>
July 12, 2026
June 21, 2026 - Leah Beloved (4)
<p>A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal.</p><p><br></p><p>An amazing thing happened between the birth of Levi and the birth of Judah. It’s as if something finally clicked into place for Leah. For at least the first three to six years of her marriage to Jacob, Leah exhausted herself. She was the tradwife par excellence with nothing to show for it. We can hear the desperation in her prayers. Everything in her world revolved around her husband. Lonely in a patriarchal society, she did everything in her limited power to get him to see her, hear her, love her. If we slow down long enough, we can hear Moses' subtle critique against Jacob his forefather for his neglectful treatment of his foremother.</p><p><br></p><p>After three attempts to get Jacob’s love and attachment, Leah appears to be at the lowest point of her life. Every time she prays it’s a variation on, “now my husband will love me, now he’ll care, now he’ll hold me in love.” That may not be our exact story, but how many of us have bent ourselves out of shape desperate to be appreciated, cared for, loved. But something happens in her prayer life after the birth of Levi when Jacob fails to change (again). Her focus shifts. Her eyes are opened to the One who’s seen her all along, heard her every cry, and held her through every sorrow. I believe while she was carrying her fourth child in her womb she realized she was more than a womb. She was more than a second-class citizen. She wasn’t an ignored daughter in the house of her father or a neglected wife in the tents of her husband. She was loved. She was beloved.</p><p><br></p><p>No longer breaking her life, wrecking her soul, chasing after the impossible affections of others, she experienced the rich fullness of the Lord who loved her all along. We see this shift, this joyous relief, as she named Judah, praying: “This time I will praise the Lord” (Genesis 29.35).</p><p><br></p><p>Friend, if your story feels like a mirror image of Leah’s, I pray you would find the same reason to praise today. Allow God to shift your perspective. Trust Him to show you how His grace is sufficient for you, even if your circumstances don’t change (2 Corinthians 12.9). Leah was beloved by God and so are you.</p>
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