The creation story in Genesis describes God bringing chaos into order, step by step. When he creates humanity, he goes a further step. The key verse is Genesis 1:27, which is perhaps the most important sentence ever written “So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.”

We come into the picture, in the image of God, and God immediately includes us in his work. We are to continue to bring order to the chaos. We see words like “dominion” and “subdue” that evoke a sense of control, but they are also infused with stewardship. It is not our creation to use as we see fit. It is God’s creation into which he has invited us to participate as co-creators.

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You are so complicated.

When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, the best science of his time regarded the cell as the fundamental building block of life, from single-cell organisms to highly developed plants and animals. The human beings are very complex at that level. There are roughly 200 different types of cells in our bodies that must work together in astonishingly intricate ways.

But there’s more. Much, much more.

Within each cell, each individual cell, are trillions of individual molecules and 10,000 to 20,000 different proteins in a given moment. There are up to 400,000 distinct structural types of proteins in the human body.

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Graduation Sunday is always bittersweet. We are so very blessed by the young people in this church, as well as their families. Year after year, we celebrate our graduates’ extraordinary character and goodness, which attest to how very well-grounded they are in their faith. That is largely a product of God’s hand on them, their families and their church.

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