Sermons

Apparently the utopia of the Garden was too good to last.  Temptation enters man’s heart and soon thereafter sin enters God’s perfect world.  The way it happened then is the same way it still happens now.

Choices have affect.  Sin has consequences.  The results of the fall of man ripple throughout history, gaining more and more steam as we each toss our own rocks into the pond.

Jesus appears to his disciples after his resurrection.

Everything the Void wasn’t, the Garden is.  If you were asked to name one thing you would change about it, you would have nothing to say.  But is there more to the garden than just being a place of tropical serenity?

God not only creates man in a very special way, but He gives humanity a divine  purpose that calls us to use the very best of creation to draw others back to God.

Chapter Three ends with Adam and Eve bening sent out of the Garden and banned from the Tree of Life.   They will carry with them the scars of their first sin, and many others to come, for the rest of their lives.  They will pass down a legacy of brokeness and a corrupted world to […]

Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them, saying:  – Matthew 5:1-2

Moses gave the law but broke it, literally, because he didn’t have the grace to keep it. He gave the law but couldn’t give the grace to live by it. Jesus gives us the grace to live out the law of God.

Session Two in our weekend workshop with Jeff Walling of Pepperdine University.