As we enter the Christmas season, we should remember that a lot of people reject our Christ. They reject that there could be one true religion; they reject that a God who loves us and yet allows bad things to happen could possibly exist; and so they reject Christ. But this rejection doesn’t just happen […]
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It would be easy to look at what is going on in the world today and wonder if the Lord was no longer involved. Seeing what takes place in the news, you may think God isn’t even there. God, however, had a plan for the world from the very beginning, and his designs haven’t changed.
Pretend that you are Noah and you’ve been on the ark for about a year. You and your family alone have been spared in this worldwide, comprehensive annihilation, and at last you step off the boat onto dry ground. What is the first thing you would do? Would you kiss the ground? Would you organize
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Verse 1: The past few Sundays, we’ve been climbing up the front side of this story about Noah and now we’ve reached the peak. What we find here in this very important part of the history of God’s people is God remembering. Now, when it is written in Scripture that God remembers, it is not
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Verse 11: There’s nothing that makes you feel smaller than when you contemplate the great deeps and the great heights. Sailing across the ocean with no land in sight makes you feel so small—all alone out in that great, massive body of water. Flying in a plane, you keep climbing and climbing, and everything that you
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[This sermon was preached during a Family Worship Service, which included young children.] God Spoke Here we are in our trek through Genesis, beginning chapter 7. But first, pop quiz: What’s Genesis 1-6 about? You might answer creation, sin, God, or humanity; which are all arguably right. But what if I told you Genesis 1-6 is