This Sunday Message was originally delivered at Weasley Chapel United Methodist Church on August 25, 2024. Below the recorded-live video is the sermon text I preached from, if you would like to follow along. Biblical texts for reference: Psalm 84 and 1 Kings 8:1-30. Read …
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This Sunday Message was originally delivered at Weasley Chapel United Methodist Church on August 11, 2024. Below the recorded-live video is the sermon text I preached from, if you would like to follow along. Biblical texts for reference: John 6: 60-69 and Jonah 4. Read …
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This Sunday Message was originally delivered at Weasley Chapel United Methodist Church on July 7, 2024. Below the live video is the sermon text I preached from, if you would like to follow along. Biblical texts for reference: Genesis 14:1-24; 2 Samuel 5:1-10; Hebrews 7:1-19; …
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Genesis 1:11, the second part of Day 3, marks a critical turning point in creation. Here creation makes a great leap which science alone has difficulty explaining, from inanimate to animate objects. The jump from simple chemical reactions, to life. Creation and Evolution Evolution is the …
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Up until now, each day in Genesis 1 has culminated with the creation of a single thing. Day 1: light. Day 2: sky. All the days that follow also feature the creation of a single type of thing, except for Day 6. (The creation of …
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In the ancient world, the Sea represented the forces of chaos, disorder, and terror. Travel over water was considered unnatural, even by the sea traveling nations. Boats stayed close to shore, clinging as well as they could to the safety of the land. And from …
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On this little planet that we call home, there exists approximately 400 miles of vertical space between the surface where we walk, and the upper shell of our atmosphere. Long before we reach 400 miles, the oxygen level becomes so thin that we would lose the ability …
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“Uncircumscribable” is not a term we usually in our churches today – but it should be. For one thing, it’s a really simple term (hang on, I’ll explain!). More simple, even, than certain familiar terms like “eternal,” or “everlasting,” “immortal,” “deathless,” “ageless,” “uncreated…” Think about it – do …
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Our calendar, our entire perception of time, is based on this one cycle: Sunrise <-> Sunset. In Genesis chapter 1 verse 5, the passage of time itself finds its origin with God. Though each unique version of the calendar is a creation of human civilizations, …
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One may wonder, why light? Why is this the first thing that God creates, even before the objects that give light—the sun and moon and stars? What is the meaning of this division between light and darkness in Genesis 1:4. Layers One of the …
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