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In the Beginning: East of Eden

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2025/11/02

We once lived in Paradise, basking in the very presence of God. Eden was our dwelling place and God was our delight. But we went rogue and lost them both. Now East of Eden is where we live—fighting to find our way home. But the entrance is blocked. Pain and sorrow overshadow our searches that end in death. Futility is our shared experience. But it won’t have the last word. There’s a way home--an entrance back into God's presence. 3

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A Terrible Trade

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2025/10/26

Remember the story of Esau? He made a terrible trade. He swapped his birthright for a bowl of stew. I’m sure Jacob was quite the cook and that the stew was next level. But the New Testament gives us a quick, tragic summary of that episode: “Esau sold his birthright for a single meal…and afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.” That’s a tough word, but a good reminder for us who are faced every day with

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In the Beginning: Everything is Broken

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2025/10/19

One of the most common objections to God is this: If He’s good, why does He allow evil, suffering, and injustice? That’s a fair question—but it’s the wrong starting point. A better one is: Where did evil, suffering, and injustice come from? The answer is harder to hear because the blame shifts from God to us. In Genesis 1–2, everything was good. But we disobeyed. We broke trust. We rebelled. And because of that, everything is broken—including us. Other worldviews can’t adequately explain our

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This is My Story | John

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2025/10/12

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A Listening Heart

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2025/10/12

If God told you to ask Him for anything you wanted, what would you say? A chocolate chip donut? So much money that you could buy 200 things in a day? (Those were the answers my 3- and 5-year old sons gave.) Maybe you would ask for healing. Inner peace. Comfort. Relief. In 1 Kings 3, God tells King Solomon to ask for anything.

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In the Beginning: The FALL-OUT

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2025/10/05

Guilt, shame, and fear—the fallout of sin. Guilt says, “I did something wrong.” Shame says, “I am something wrong.” Fear says, “I’m in danger.” We see all three of those emotions in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve cover themselves, hide from God, and deflect blame. But the story doesn’t end there. God pursues them, provides true covering, and promises a Redeemer. That’s “The Fall-Out.”

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In the Beginning: The Birth of Self-Deception

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2025/09/28

How did humanity fall into ruin? A forbidden fruit and a subtle serpent factor in—no doubt about it. But at the end of the day, it was a choice. Nobody forced Adam and Eve’s hand. The devil did not “make them do it.” That excuse will never fly. So what happened? First, the serpent deceived Eve. But what happened next is often overlooked. Eve deceived herself. She took another look at the tree and its forbidden fruit. The lie was sown and it instantly bore fruit. Eve viewed the tree differently now

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In the Beginning: Paradise Lost

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2025/09/21

Have you ever wondered why dogs bite, paint fades, or women carry pepper spray at night? Why are relationships hard, kids afraid of the dark, and our phones buzzing with Amber Alerts? Genesis 2 had no sirens, hospitals, or cemeteries. But now brokenness fills our world. What happened? My Bible labels Genesis 3 as “The Fall.” At the end of chapter 2, everything was very good—love, trust, peace, and joy with no death or disease. But in chapter 3, it all went terribly wrong. Humanity fell—hard. How did

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The Connected Life

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2025/09/14

When the church was birthed on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, they had no strategy or technique for changing the world. They just wanted to worship Jesus—together. They prayed. They sang. They rejoiced. They grew. They ate. All together. They had a shared devotion, a shared life, and a shared mission. And revival broke out. That’s not a formula for revival (God laughs at our formulas). But it is a beautiful life. It is a powerful life. It is a connected life. And as it turns out, it’s also God’s

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In the Beginning: This is Our Story, Part Two

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2025/09/07

What is nostalgia? It’s remembering when life was good—really good. It’s remembering and longing to go back to better times. Or at least better moments. A snowy Christmas morning. A satisfying movie. A stirring book. A childhood song. The smell of home. C.S. Lewis called those longings “desires for our far-off country,” but warned not to misplace them. He wrote, “These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing

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Kingdom Invasion

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2025/08/31

No matter which way you slice it, Jesus' message while He was here on earth was all about one thing: the kingdom of heaven. He called for repentance and belief because "the kingdom of heaven is here." Jesus' declaration raises immediate questions: What is the kingdom of heaven? How do we know it's here? Can I join the kingdom? To teach His followers more about God's kingdom, Jesus used parables about a mustard seed and leaven. He explains what the kingdom will do and how it will do it.

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In the Beginning: This is Our Story

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2025/08/24

Security. Identity. Liberty. Beauty. Community. Those all fall under the category of universal longings. In other words, human beings have yearned for and sought after those things since the beginning of time. Well, almost since the beginning of time. Once upon a time, we had them all--in abundance. But that time was short-lived. We lost them. And now, we look for them in all the wrong places. Why? Genesis 2 offers us answers.

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In the Beginning: A Day of Rest

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2025/08/17

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This is My Story | Student Ministry Camp Testimony...

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2025/08/10

Hear a powerful story of transformation as a student shares how he encountered God in a life-changing way during his camp experience.

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Darkness

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2025/08/10

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The Prayer of Love & Passion

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2025/08/03

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Sing | Psalm 96

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2025/07/27

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In the Beginning: Defending Our Design

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2025/07/20

God made us to bear His image—to reflect and represent Him in the world. That’s our design and it includes capacities like affirming human dignity, worshiping our Creator, acknowledging our God-given biological sex, exercising careful stewardship, pursuing relational enrichment, finding meaningful work, and even multiplying the human race. That’s how God designed us. And that’s how life works best. But because of sin, that design is under siege. Whether from the world, the devil, or the flesh, our

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In the Beginning: God’s Stewards

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2025/07/13

In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve. He gave them His image. He gave them each other. He gave them a garden. And He gave them a task: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion.” What does it mean to “have dominion”? The word means to rule. To take charge. To control. To exercise power. That sounds scary. We know what “power” does in the wrong hands. But before sin marred the image of God in us, we were entrusted as God’s stewards. His caretakers over earth

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In the Beginning: The Relational Life

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2025/07/06

What does it mean to be a human? How do we know what a mature, healthy human looks like? The answer to those questions is found back at the beginning—in Genesis. God said something shocking and revolutionary before he created us. He said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” God was essentially saying: “Let’s make somebody that looks and functions like us; someone with our features.” He is using relational language. Let US. OUR image. Let THEM. Hear the theme? Human beings are

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