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WORK AND REST (GENESIS 2-3)
Posted on August 31st, 2010
God made us to work…and sometimes it’s satisfying, but lots of the time it can be pretty frustrating!
Ever had a day at work like this…
Genesis 2:2-3,15
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done…15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Genesis 3:17-19
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
So is that it? Work sucks and then you die?
Thankfully no. We were made for much more than that!
Instead of looking for the prefect job, or an endless holiday, what you’re really yearning for is to enter the rest God has for His people…now, and into eternity.
Listen to the Sermon here:
Genesis 2:2-3,15; 3:17-19
THE FALL OF MANKIND (GENESIS 3:1-24)
Posted on August 22nd, 2010
“Everyone should be able to choose what’s right and wrong for themselves. People’s morals are their own private choice. It’s my life and I’ll live it my own way”
Looks like it wasn’t just Adam and Eve who’s been listening to the serpent…
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. (Genesis 3:1-7)
The world is not as it should be because we are not as we should be…
Listen to the sermon here:
Genesis 3:1-24
SEX, MARRIAGE AND GENDER ROLES (GENESIS 2:18-25)
Posted on August 16th, 2010
God made us male and female.
He invented sex and marriage.
He made men and women equal,
but different.
And he has greater purposes for our relationships than our own satisfaction or happiness.
Will you listen to your Creator about gender roles, sex and marriage and trust that his purposes are good?
Genesis 2:18-25
The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”…Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. (Genesis 2:18-25)
Listen to the Sermon here:
CREATION, EVOLUTION, GOD AND YOU (GENESIS 1:1-2:3)
Posted on August 9th, 2010
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
What about evolution?
And what significance (if any) does mankind have in a universe as big as this?
Does it really matter where we came from?
Listen to the Sermon here:
Genesis 1:1-2:3
SPIRITUAL MATURITY (EPHESIANS 4)
Posted on August 1st, 2010
God wants His people to grow mature in their faith – more and more like Jesus.
Grahame Fuller (guest speaker, pastor at Central Coast EV Church) helps us explore what the deal is.
Listen to the Sermon here:
GOD’S MISSION STRATEGY (ACTS 8)
Posted on July 25th, 2010
Guest speaker Sam Hilton (mission pastor, Hunter Bible Church) gives us the low-down on God’s surprising strategy to get the gospel out to the nations.
Are you getting amongst it?
Mission is closer to home than you might think.
Listen to the Sermon here:
HE DRANK THE CUP FOR ME (JOHN 18:1-14)
Posted on July 18th, 2010
The night before Jesus died one of his disciples chopped the ear off one of the men who came to arrest Him. But Jesus said: “Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
What was in the cup?
And what’s that got to do with me?
Listen to the Bible reading and Sermon here:
John 18:1-14