In the beginning, people thought of our physical cosmos as a massive ocean, a place of storms and terrifying destruction as titans the size of galaxies fought against one another in the darkness. And so, when we look at the creation myths of most ancient nations, what we often find are stories of an earth […]
So, in the Old Testament, when God brought the Jewish people back to Jerusalem after their exile in Babylon, he gave them two simple instructions: build the temple, and live truthful lives with one another. And God promised that, one day, people from all nations would come streaming into that temple to worship alongside the […]
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth — That is how Moses began the book of Genesis. And by this point we are very familiar with what followed: over the course of seven days God brought the earth up out of darkness and chaos and turned it into an orderly temple filled […]
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Bong-bongggg… Last week, on “Echoes of a Far-Off Country”: King Xerxes: “Esther, what do you want? Even up to half my kingdom, I will give it to you!” Queen Esther: “What do I want…hmmm, what do I want? My Lord King, what I want is to invite you and Haman to dinner — twice! — […]
So, you all remember what Jesus came to do, right? He came to make war on the devil, the ancient dragon, who took mankind captive. He came to set those captives free. And he’s been doing that ever since Chapter 4. And then in the last chapter, Chapter 8, we saw the war escalate. Previously […]
It is Judgement Day in the garden, Judgement Day for Adam and his wife, and for the serpent that convinced them to break covenant with their Father. God had told Adam — the Prime Minister of God’s garden kingdom — to protect the tree of knowledge and reserve it for God alone. Instead, the man […]
Moses introduced the idea of the city very early in the book of Genesis: right after Cain murdered his brother Abel, Moses tells us, he ran away from God’s presence in the Garden of Eden and settled in lands far away to the east. And there he built a city. And as the story went […]
So last week we experienced a sudden change of direction. God has been speaking to his people from the top of Mt. Sinai for a while now, outlining the constitution for his new nation of Israel. He is describing the boundaries of the covenant he wants to make with them. And the first four commandments […]
The Fifth Test In the Wilderness: Reconciliation (Exodus 18:1-12) The leader of yet another foreign nation approaches God’s people, but this time the nature of the test is not as clear. We last saw the Israelites camped in the wilderness of Rephidim, alongside a river flowing down from the foothills of Mount Sinai in the […]
Because we belong to Christ, we are set free to work with integrity, justice and compassion. CDPCKL · The Covenant of Adoption (Exodus 24:1-11) Does God love us? How can we tell for certain? Travel back to the day the nation of Israel was officially adopted as God’s son, and find out how they would […]
If you have been worshiping with us over the last couple of weeks, you may already suspect how we are going to get started here today: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… And the reason we have been starting with creation for the last two weeks is because we have noticed […]
In the beginning, God created a man and gave him the freedom to choose obedience or disobedience. But as we heard last week, the serpent — who was Satan — told Adam that true freedom comes from disobedience. So Adam chose disobedience, for himself and his wife. And Genesis tells us that their eyes were […]
Well, over the last ten weeks or so we have been reading together through God’s first public speech to his people. He has spoken ten words — what we now call the Ten Commandments. And through these ten words God has been describing who he is. He has been describing ten particular character traits that […]