Providence Reformed Church of Bakersfield

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  • The Covenant, the Curse, and Christ

    Genesis 15:1-21 • Rev. Randy Martin • After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my…

  • Babel – A Name for Ourselves

    Genesis 11:1-9 • Rev. Randy Martin • Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had…

  • The Story of Three Sons

    Genesis 4:1-26 • Rev. Randy Martin • Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course…

  • Two Adams, Two Humanities, Two Covenants

    Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:12-21 • Rev. Randy Martin • I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so…

  • Why the World Is Broken

    Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-24 • Rev. Randy Martin • The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good…

  • Christ the Image of God

    Genesis 1:26-28; Hebrews 1:1-4 • Rev. Randy Martin • Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that…

  • The Glory of God in the Face of Christ

    John 1:15-18 • Rev. Randy Martin • John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’” For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and…

  • The Incarnate Tabernacle of God – God with Us

    John 1:14 • Rev. Randy Martin • And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

  • The Light Revealed and Rejected

    John 1:6-13 • Rev. Randy Martin • There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to…

  • More Than A Metaphor

    Mark 16:1-8 • Michael Hudson • When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to…