How do we hold on to the tension of this world and our lives being beautifully brilliant and badly broken. Genesis 3:1-7 helps explain our experience of life in this world, enlarges our experience of God's grace, and equips us to face temptation.

God's design for marriage - a lifelong relationship between a man and a woman that is also a picture that points beyond itself to the one relationship that can truly satisfy - the relationship between Jesus and his people, the church.

How is the Holy Spirit at work in your life and the life of our church? If you want to see evidence of the Spirit at work look to the way we love one another.

Who are we? We are created for relationship, it is not good to be alone. We are created male and female, equal yet different.

God is a life-giving generous God. God has created us to be a life living people who work, who care, and who are free.

If humanity is the highpoint of creation the goal of creation is rest. The day of rest gives hope that God will keep his promises and it shows us what life is for.

To be human means being made in the image of God and made for a purpose. Our experience is this image is marred and purpose frustrated but in Jesus we are renewed to a life of knowing and experiencing God as Father and a life of fruitfulness.

In the beginning we are introduced to God who is eternal, loving, powerful and is the God to be worshipped.

Jesus' body was not stolen away by his friends but really is alive. This is good news to go and take to all people

Easter means hope. The resurrection gives us new life into a living hope which brings unending, unsquashable, and unsealable joy