This week, we're launching into our new summer message series, Genesis: The Birth of a Nation, where we are exploring the lives of Isaac and Jacob. Those who have been around Providence for a while know that we’ve explored other parts of Genesis in the past. In 2016, we began at the end of the book, looking at the story of Joseph, which vividly points forward to Jesus. We later rewound to the first eleven chapters of Genesis, digging into the creation story, Noah, the flood, and the Tower of Babel, where God creates the nations of the earth by scattering them in an act of judgment. In Genesis 12, we met Abraham, the man in whom God chooses to bless all the nations of the earth. We studied the life of Abraham, leaving off with his legacy of faith in the opening verses of chapter 25. Now, six years later, we’re coming back to that legacy and God’s promise to make of Abraham a great nation. Join us as we pick up the story and see the birth of a nation through Isaac and Jacob.