In this message, Mark turns the conversation about peacemaking to creation. Exploring scriptures and quotes from theologians, this sermon seeks to move us into a restorative relationship with Creation.

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REFLECTION QUESTIONS:

1. What is your favorite landscape?

2. Why is a consumeristic relationship with nature problematic and opposite the way of Jesus?

3. What is something from the sermon that has stayed with you- either as an encouragement, confusion, or frustration?

4. Read Colossians 1:15-16, 19-20. How do these verses frame our understanding of Jesus and Jesus' mission?

5. Discuss Romans 8:19-23. How do you see mutuality and the calling for peacemakers?

6. What is a practice you are considering in response to the call to make peace within creation?