Sermons – GraceLife Church: Deltona, FL

Humans need blueprints! In our more honest and frustrating moments, we acknowledge this. Who hasn’t tasted the bitter experience of making things up as we go; throwing out the manufacturer’s manual or ignoring it altogether? We need blueprints to assemble an Ikea bookshelf, to find the best route to a strange city, and to flourish as human beings in God’s good world. If you look carefully, even before God created humans, he lays out a blueprint for how life works best. The extreme care God took in forming and filling the universe is instructive. God gave us a pattern—a blueprint. We see wisdom, goodness, beauty, and function. It’s staggering to consider, and tragic to ignore—often yielding confusion and suffering. This week we’re continuing our journey in Genesis.

People are beginning to reckon with the failures and inadequacies of worldviews they once hoped in. Those worldviews (philosophies, religions, political ideologies, technological progress) fell flat—really flat. The “centre did not hold.” They did not explain reality, provide meaning, or offer hope. They couldn’t. So people are ditching them and exploring ideas that were once ridiculed and distrusted. Leaders have reported surges in Bible sales and downloaded Bible-reading apps. We see upticks in church attendance. Podcasts featuring interviews (and debates!) with scholars are going viral. People are reconsidering the claims of Christianity. They are asking questions. Christians are providing answers that are rational, reasonable, and compelling. Those answers begin in Genesis. It’s a great time to participate corporately with what God is doing. We’re launching a study through the early chapters of Genesis. I’m excited to explore the basic foundational storyline of the Bible with you. My prayer is that it both encourages you and equips you to “Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you…” 1 Peter 3:15

What comes to mind when you hear the word wilderness? Maybe barrenness, or drought? Isolation, thirst, vulnerability, danger? All those could easily fit into the word—and more. David found himself in the wilderness often. Thank God he wrote about his journeys so we can learn from them. Are you finding yourself in the wilderness these days? Let David help you find your way to the Oasis.

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Every second Sunday of the month, we hear a testimony from one of our members. It could be a testimony of how they came to faith, or any other instance where they saw the goodness of God in their life.