Introduction: Now, let’s picture the scene: man had just been created by God, forming man from the dust of the ground and God Himself breathing into Adams nostrils the breath of life. Man is standing there for the 1st time in human history, in the midst of all the lush, greens, reds, yellows, oranges,…

God of all Creation (Genesis 1:1-25) Genesis 1:1-25 (NASB95) 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”;…

Introduction: Creation is now complete. Additional details about the creation of Adam and Eve fill most of Genesis 2. But Genesis 2 begins with an account of day seven, bringing creation week to a close. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from…

We begin our series, God's Big Picture looking at how the whole story of the bible fits together under the idea of the Kingdom of God. God's people, in God's place, living under God's rule and blessing. This pattern was established when God created the world. Thanks to Vaughan Roberts for his work on this in his similarly titled book.

John Macarthur and further back the SBC have made Women’s roles in the life of the church a front and center issue. The SBC had knuckle heads making statements like… a women in my pulpit… never . Then a couple of weeks ago, John MacArthur made the satement about Beth Moore… stay home. Unfortunately today…

Opening Prayer And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge…

Genesis 2 is an amplification of day 6 in creation week ( Genesis 1:26-29 ) · More information · Deeper understanding · Indicator to us that this particular part of creation was significant. A closer look at creation reveals that we were made to have a relationship with God . Its seen in our likeness…

Title: After Darkness, Light Text: Genesis 1:2-5 Preached by Pastor Phil Layton at Gold Country Baptist Church on Sunday, May 27, 2007 www.goldcountrybaptist.org The medieval times or Middle Ages are often called the dark ages for a number of reasons, but spiritually speaking the world was very dark…

God created Man, not Man creating God!

February 25, 2007 Pure Sex Part 1: Sex was God’s idea! Introduction: No one is better qualified to repair something than its designer and creator. No one speaks more clearly to today’s sexual confusion than God. 1. Sex was God’s idea! Genesis 1-2 A. For _____________________: the expression of ___________________.…

Do you have questions over gender equality, identity and orientation? How does God's order of creation effect our understanding of gender roles and responsibilities? Which roles and responsibilities are a matter of culture and which are biblically non-cultural? // To find out more about Involve Church, please visit involvechurch.com or email info@involvechurch.com.

Intro Today we are looking at Psalm 51 . As you turn there in your Bibles or look it up on your device, I want to tell you about Timothy Keller and his brother-in-law. Timothy Keller tells this story in his book Preaching to the Heart: “My brother-in-law would never wear a seat belt in the car. I berated…

We’re almost to the pinnacle of creation. Thus far we’ve seen the creation of light, the separation of the waters between those in the heavens and those on earth, the forming of land, the creation of vegetation, the creation of the sun and moon and stars, the creatures of the sea and the birds of the…

To ponder how to live as the image of God

VIDEO before sermon Welcome - Join me in Genesis 1 this morning First week of a 31 week series entitled “The Story” Chronological look at how all of God’s Word fits together Chapter 1 - Covers Genesis 1-8 Upper and Lower Story Emphasis Lower Story Our perspective of everyday situations bills, relationships,…

Introduction Pray for the Service - Thanksgiving Let’s praise the Lord together Rattle So Good to Me The title of this message is God’s Mission for Man Theme verse: 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over…

Reading: 1Cor 6:12-20: 1cor 13:4-7 / HC Q&A 108-109 You shall not commit adultery Exodus 20:14 (NIV) I. God Created our sexuality A. God made us Male and Female 1. How do we know someone’s gender? a. The 1st question: is it a boy or a girl? b. Almost as if we are an “it” until we are a “he” or a “she.”…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.…

Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. -------------------- 1 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. 2 On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 God blessed…

Begin with us in God’s book of beginnings!

The Cosmos Is a Temple In some of the ancient Near Eastern texts, a temple is built as a conclusion to cosmic creation. But typically these are distinct, though related acts. The natural association between them is that the creative acts are expressions of authority, and the temple is the place where…

Genesis 1:20-2:3 Let There Be Life In 1959 a Russian zoologist, Dr. Demitry Belyayev, setup a series of experiments to test if foxes could be bread in such a way as to create domesticated dogs similarly how wolves were believed to be domesticated into dogs. What they found was very amazing. They started…

We see rhythm and cadence all throughout the creation of God and it was intentionally built into life by the creator Himself.