Roddy and Matt discuss last week's sermon on prayer that transforms the church, focusing on practical suggestions for cultivating a life of prayer that results in good works.

We mentioned a few resources in the podcast:
- The Joshua Project: https://joshuaproject.net/
- Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church, Paul David Tripp: https://smile.amazon.com/Lead-Gospel-Principles-Leadership-Church/dp/1433567636
- Register for the Wednesday prayer night: https://biblechurch.life/community-dinner-and-prayer-service

The final prayer in the Bible is one that points to the culmination of all things. It is one of the main cries of the entire Bible narrative yet is often ignored by Christians in their private and corporate lives. Join us as we delve into this brief prayer and learn some guiding principles while being challenged to long more and more for Christ's return.

The final prayer in the Bible is one that points to the culmination of all things. It is one of the main cries of the entire Bible narrative yet is often ignored by Christians in their private and corporate lives. Join us as we delve into this brief prayer and learn some guiding principles while being challenged to long more and more for Christ's return.

Jay is back this week to discuss his most recent sermon on serving and protecting the creation from Genesis 1-2. He and Matt talk everything from "Patagucci" to Jonathan Edwards to theological ethics. Conservative Christians generally don't give much attention to the stewardship of creation as a biblical theme. How should we think about stewardship? What forces in our modern world work against a proper use of creation? How do Sabbath and stewardship interrelate? Listen as Jay and Matt discuss and apply to CHBC.

SHOW NOTES:
- Jonathan Edward's "Personal Narrative" of his conversion: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/JonathanEdwardsPersonalNarrative.pdf
- "Hearing God's Words: Exploring Biblical Spirituality" by Peter Adam: https://smile.amazon.com/Hearing-Gods-Words-Exploring-Spirituality/dp/0830826173

Recommended Works by Wendell Berry:
- "Jayber Crow" by Wendell Berry: https://smile.amazon.com/Jayber-Crow-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582431604
- "Essays: Home Economics" by Wendell Berry: https://smile.amazon.com/Home-Economics-Fourteen-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582434859
- "Poetry: This Day: Collected and New Sabbath Poems" by Wendell Berry: https://smile.amazon.com/This-Day-Collected-Sabbath-Poems/dp/1619024365

The environment has gotten a lot of press since the early 80's, particularly how population growth and our technologies negatively affect it. I think most of us love a good vista or sunset, but should we go beyond just a nice devotional moment to consider what our Christian responsibility is toward the created order? Does the Bible call us to more intentional living as caretakers of the world? I think so. Without any hint of idolatry, or sentimentality, the Bible does shape our vision of creation stewardship and we will look at that storyline.

The environment has gotten a lot of press since the early 80's, particularly how population growth and our technologies negatively affect it. I think most of us love a good vista or sunset, but should we go beyond just a nice devotional moment to consider what our Christian responsibility is toward the created order? Does the Bible call us to more intentional living as caretakers of the world? I think so. Without any hint of idolatry, or sentimentality, the Bible does shape our vision of creation stewardship and we will look at that storyline.

On this episode, Matt asks Ryan about his aims for the recent sermon on ethnic division and reconciliation. How can our church move forward together? They discuss the importance of being captivated by the biblical story of reconciliation and the necessity of prayer as the fuel for reconciling work. We hope you'll join us in prayer as we seek to be "perfected in love" (1 John 4:18).

This week we will be concluding our 3-part mini-series within our series on Genesis on what it means to be human by looking at the topic of ethnicity and race. We will learn from Scripture how ethnicity factors into our identity as God‘s people, how sin has fractured the human race, and how the local church is to participate in God’s overall plan of redemption of becoming the “one new humanity” in Christ.