Sermon Resources on Creation Of Humanity

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Dust and Creation

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Genesis 2:null, Genesis 1:30

Contrast the creation of the first man according to Genesis 2 with the creation of the first human beings according to Mesopotamian tradition. Both start with dust or clay, but then the accounts vary....

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God's Image in Humanity

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Nahum Sarna writes in Understanding Genesis: Perhaps nowhere is the contrast between the mythological and the Israelite conceptions more striking and more illuminating than in their respective descr...

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Heavenly Father – because we are Your creation, You have chosen

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Genesis 12:

Pastor: Heavenly Father – because we are Your creation, You have chosen not to abandon us to sin and death but to rescue us– and it cost the life of Your Son, Jesus Christ, so that we might live wit...

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You have wonderfully created us, O God, and yet more wonderfully

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Philippians 2:, Isaiah 7:14, Luke 2:1-20, Matthew 1:, Colossians 3:10, 1 John 3:1, 2 Corinthians 5:17

You have wonderfully created us, O God, and yet more wonderfully restored the dignity of human nature. Allow us to share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son Jesu...

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Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

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Everything in the universe is all jumbled together. So God begins to do some creative separating: he separates light from darkness, day from night, water from land, the sea creatures from the land cru...

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Bearing the Family Likeness

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Vaughan Roberts

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Genesis 1:27

The anthropologist Desmond Morris has written: ‘Human beings are animals. They are sometimes monsters, sometimes magnificent, but always animals.’ That statement is correct as far as it goes. We are c...

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Inspiring the Breath of God

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Mike Cosper

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Romans 1:25

Our lives are meant to inspire with (or inhale) the breath of God, the glory of his presence, the brilliance and beauty of his creation, and to expire (or exhale) an echo of wonder—an “amen.” It shoul...

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Teresa of Avila

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Exodus 25:8, Ezekiel 36:26-27, Jeremiah 29:13, John 14:23, Psalm 139:23-24

Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.

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Blessing of the Animals Service

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Psalm 148:, Genesis 1:20-26

Order of Service Greet those gathered and invite them to make a circle with their animals. This is designed as a responsive service between the leader and people, but the reading and prayers could ...

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Scripture Guide, Psalm 8 (Guide B)

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Scott B. Bullock

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Psalm 8:, Psalm 144:3, Job 7:17, Hebrews 2:6-10, Matthew 21:16, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

Ancient Lens What’s the historical context? Background Structure This Psalm of David is unique. “It is the only hymn in the Old Testament composed completely as a direct address to God.” [1] It e...

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A Fixed Pie Or A Growing Pie?

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Tom Nelson

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Genesis 41:46-57 , Proverbs 31:10-31, Deuteronomy 8:17-18, Matthew 25:14-30, Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 128:1-2

Seeing that wealth is neither to be avoided nor praised but rather stewarded wisely and generously, how should we think about material wealth creation? This is an important question worthy of thoughtf...

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In the beginning God created all things and God saw that they were good.

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Genesis 2:, Galatians 4:4-7

Pastor: In the beginning God created all things People: and God saw that they were good. Pastor: God created Adam and Eve in His image, to be in relationship with Him. When confronte...

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Psalm 8 | God's Majesty

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Scott B. Bullock

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Psalm 8:, Psalm 144:3, Job 7:17, Hebrews 2:6-10, Matthew 21:16, 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

Ancient Lens What’s the historical context? Background Structure This Psalm of David is unique. “It is the only hymn in the Old Testament composed completely as a direct address to God.” [1] It e...

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Jonathan Edwards

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Psalm 28:7, Isaiah 12:3, Psalm 16:11, Psalm 37:4, Romans 37:4, Romans 15:13

God created man for nothing else but happiness.

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Gracious God, sometimes I am so caught

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Mark D. Roberts

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Genesis 1:null, Philippians 1:6, 2 Corinthians 3:18, James 1:17-18, Colossians 3:10, Ephesians 2:10

Gracious God, sometimes I am so caught up in my failures, in all the ways I am not like you, that I neglect the deeper truth, the earlier truth of Genesis 1. You have made me, as a human being, in you...

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Timothy Keller

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Genesis 1:26-27, Deuteronomy 7:7-9, Isaiah 43:7 , John 17:24, Ephesians 1:4-5, Psalm 8:3-5

The only reason God would have had for creating us was not to get the cosmic love and joy of relationship (because he already had that) but to share it.

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What Science will Reveal about the Origin of Man?

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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What science will ever be able to reveal to man the origin, nature and character of that conscious power to will and to love which constitutes his life? It is certainly not our effort, nor the effort ...

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Our Father, Lord, when the world was without form and void did you

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Calvin Miller

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Genesis 1:1-2, Genesis 2:7, John 1:3, Colossians 1:16-17, Isaiah 64:8

Our Father, Lord, when the world was without form and void did you roll the clay into shapes of life? Did you sing on that far distant Friday, when you fashioned the caterpillar, and the cobra? And Je...

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C. S. Lewis

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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.

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Thomas Merton

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Job 38:1-7, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Genesis 32:22-32, Luke 1:26-38, Matthew 16:13-17, Psalm 8:3-4

It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

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Author

Therese of Lisieux

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Genesis 3:20, Exodus 2:10, Proverbs 31:, Psalm 131:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:7

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

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Praise to our creating God!

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Psalm 96:

People: Praise to our creating God! Pastor: In the name of His Son, Jesus Christ. People: Praise to our redeeming God! Pastor: In the name of God the Spirit. People: ...

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In the beginning God created all things

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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Genesis 1:, Psalm 19:

Leader: In the beginning God created all things People: and God saw that they were good. Leader: The heavens declare the glory of God; People: the skies proclaim the work of h...

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We have been created by God, to be

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Jacob Traeger

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We have been created by God, to be loved by God, and to receive our identity from God. But in our everyday lives, as we go about our work, school, interacting with our family and friends, we don’t alw...

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The Complexity of the Human Body

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Bill Bryson

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Psalm 139:13-14, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 Timothy 4:4-5, Colossians 3:17, Ephesians 5:29, Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 2:7

In his book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, author Bill Bryson details the complexity within the human body: No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of protein in the ...

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Scripture Guide, Job 38:1-11

Author

William Rowley

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Job 38:1-11, Genesis 1:, Matthew 8:23-27, Luke 8:22-25, Psalm 74:14, Psalm 104:26, Genesis 1:21

Note: This was originally part of a guide for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (RCL Year B) , which includes Job 38:1-11 and Mark 4:35-11 . I have adapted the discussion of each of these t...

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Goodness: A Home for Humanity

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Jen Pollock Michel

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Genesis 1:null, Genesis 2:null

In Genesis 1–2, God makes a home for his people. From the primeval wilderness and wasteland God begets beauty and form, building the grand house called Earth. God’s creative acts are not simply intend...

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God’s First Menu

Author

Tim Chester

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Genesis 2:16

What is the very first thing God said to humanity after he created Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden of Eden? “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden” (Gen. 2:16). God’s first words a...

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Scripture Guide, Psalm 8 (Guide A)

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Scott B. Bullock

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Psalm 8:null, Genesis 1:26-28, Hebrews 2:5-9

Plenipotentiary Anyone know what a “plenipotentiary” is? Try that compound Latin word on for size! It is derived from the Latin words plenus “full” and potens “power.” It refers to a person who p...

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Trinity Sunday

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Scott B. Bullock

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Psalm 8:, Genesis 1:26-28, Hebrews 2:5-9

Preaching Commentary Plenipotentiary Anyone know what a “plenipotentiary” is? Try that compound Latin word on for size! It is derived from the Latin words plenus “full” and potens “power.” It r...

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