The Trees

I've never been much of one to let any holidays interrupt a sermon series (Someday they'll have my picture near the dictionary entry for "curmudgeon") but today's sermon I think went pretty good with Easter around the corner. In Genesis 2:15-17, we see not only purpose in God's design of the garden and mankind's activity there, but purpose in the trees that God placed there. It's certainly a weighty topic, but hopefully the main idea of the reasons for God's test were laid out.

Sermon, April 17
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The Giver of Life

Where does life come from? Life is a mystery, something that is more than just a biological definition. Life comes from God, and we see that in the text today as God makes man from dust, yet breathes life into him.

Sermon, April 10
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A Day of Rest

Why did God rest on the seventh day? It seems rather strange, on the face of it. But hopefully in today's sermon we were able to cover some of the pertinent explanations of the final day of Creation week.

Sermon, April 3
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At the end of the week...

Our text today was Genesis 1:27-31, the end of chapter one and the end of the creative part of the week for God. There's good foundational truths in these verses that are a part of understanding who God is and what He intended for us.

Sermon, March 27
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In the image of God

I only dealt with one verse today, Genesis 1:26. There's a lot there, dealing with the meaning of being made in the image of God. Very important, and there's lots more that we could have added to it. Hopefully this gave some good things to think about as we go further in to the creation account.

And we had some technical difficulties while we were gone, so I'm not going to be able to share the messages from the guest speakers we had the last two weeks. I heard they did a great job though, and hopefully we can have them both out again sometime!

I'll give a little pitch for Jack Dody's ministry, Christian Homesteading. Jack came and shared on March 6th. Check out his website here!

Sermon, March 20
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Spoken Into Existence

I think this weeks sermon was a little better than last weeks! ;-)

So today, I spoke about the creation on days 4, 5, and the first part of 6. It's almost humorous how terse and direct the creation account is. One commentator I read talked about how it is the most non-mythical account he's ever come across. Which, I think, has to do with the idea that God really did speak everything into existence. Which means we should see evidence of that. Which, only as it related to some of the things created on those days, I shared about in some amazing scientific descriptions.

Those descriptions came from the excellent website maintained by Answers In Genesis. Here's some links for you to peruse.

Answers In Genesis
Here's the page I found the cool info about the animals


Sermon, February 27
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The first days of creation

Today we looked at the first three days of creation. It's amazing to think about God's creative power displayed in such a way, calling in to being what is not, simply speaking things into existence.

Sermon, February 20
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