Created Anew
Celebrating God’s creativity-and our own-in the season of new beginnings.
This series begins at the start of a new year, a time to start over and create the world anew through resolutions, hopes, and dreams. This is an opportunity for a community to explore what it means to be a follower of Jesus in a new calendar year and see Christian identity in a new way. Through Scriptures that span all sections of the Bible let’s discover new and creative ways to explore what it means to be a baptized Christian in the world today.
Sermon Title | Focus Scripture | Theme | |
1/10 | God Created, Now What? | Genesis 1:1-5 | God’s creativity is made manifest in the continual act of creation that spans space and time. |
1/17 | Creating Christian Freedom | I Corinthians 6:12-20 | Christian freedom is not todo what we please, but in response to God’s love for us, manifest in Christ, it is to do what pleases God. |
1/24 | Creativity in Connection | Jonah 3:1-5, 10 | God’s proclamation is creative, even if we are not ready to hear or speak what God wants to tell us. |
1/31 | Being the Epiphany | I Corinthians 8:1-13 | Our bodies and beings matter in Christian community as created in God’s image. |
2/7 | Never-ending Creativity | Isaiah 40:21-31 | Even in the midst of our own selfishness and destruction, God finds ways to create the world anew. |
2/14 | Creating the Extraordinary in the Ordinary | 2 Kings 5:1-14 | Even within the rhythms of an uneventful daily life, God reaches out to us in the most ordinary of places. |
2/21 Transfiguration Sunday | Descending to Share the Story | Mark 9:2-9 | In an act of ultimate creativity, Jesus’ identity as the Son ofGod is revealed to us. How do we descend from the mountaintop to share such an experience? |
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