Watch the trailer below for this fabulous new documentary! Is Genesis History? features over a dozen scientists and scholars explaining how the world intersects with Genesis. From rock layers to fossils, from lions to stars, this fascinating film will change the way you see the world. The film’s goal is to provide a reasonable case for Creation in six normal days, a real Adam and Eve, an actual fall, a global flood, and a tower of Babel. Dr. Del Tackett, creator of “The Truth Project,” serves … [Read more...]
Thank You for the Gift of Jesus Christ
"God who made all things, the earth, the air, the sky; Who gave the light its birth, cares for me..." * But gladly I can thank and praise You O God, for making many like me to share all that you have created. I rejoice with my brothers and sisters. Life is not always pleasant because the first people made a mess of their lives by disobeying You! Thank you for so kindly sending the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver us from the penalty due to all of us for our rebellion. Now "when life's clouds … [Read more...]
We Seek to Spend Quiet Time in Your Presence
Yes, today I desire to spend just some quiet time away from the hustle and bustle of everyday living. Quiet time in Your presence Lord, observing the multitude of magnificent things around me, your animals, the birds, and yes even the crawling insects, the flowers, the shrubs, the trees, the sky and clouds being moved by your breath upon this grand plan of yours. In all that I will worship today and not forgetting it tomorrow. Amen To read our prayer guide, click here. To learn more … [Read more...]
We are Grateful for this Beautiful World
Father, thank you for this beautiful world that You have given to us to live out our lives on this side of glory. We are grateful for its vastness and its diversity. We are blessed by its resources and its resourcefulness in renewing itself day by day and season by season. Help us, O’ Lord, to be wise stewards of your creation. Guide us as we seek to use it for our good and for Your glory. Let us never abandon or abuse any of Your gifts to us including our environment, but let us be mindful … [Read more...]
We Thank God for Forgiveness and Pray That He Would Give Us His Heart for the World
Merciful Lord God, We thank you for calling us to prayer in the Spirit of Adoption, by whom we cry to you, "Abba! Father!" We thank you for your Word, by which we know "that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God." We thank you that through Jesus Christ all things are made new, and we yearn for the fullness of the promise. We confess that we have too often used your creation thoughtlessly. We have sinned in … [Read more...]
Dominion and Stewardship: Believers and the Environment
“Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far as they help him in the attainment of his end.” St. Ignatius of Loyola A welcome development of the past thirty years has been the emergence of less-utilitarian attitudes towards the environment by believers and non-believers alike. No … [Read more...]