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'kingdom season';  a time of adjusting perspective

As we approach Christmas, we can feel endlessly busy with To Do lists that seem to grow faster than we can cross things off them.
Amidst all this busyness, we remember that Christ the King has already completed God's work.
Although it can feel to us like there's always more to do,
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Jonah 1

SB:  Jonah thought he could run from God but he hadn't really understood how big & how mighty God is.
• The journey:
the extent to which he'd go to avoid God's command
 
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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  RC

iv / Gen 2 v. 4 - 17

• The Lord's garden: A temple, a home for God

• Mankind:
 { formed from the dust of the earth
    -  & the breath of Heaven
becomes a link between both

Tree: Knowledge of good & evil
The question is  - do you trust me?
Implicit daily question to Adam & Eve
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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  JM

iii /  Gen. 2  v. 1 - 3       Matt. 11: 28 - 30
Life-giving communion with the Lifegiver

• Tabernacle & Temple: expressions of Eden recalled
 Lampstand: Tree of Life / Cherubim: guarding Eden

• Ps 132: ‘resting-place’;
 dwelling-place, used interchangeably

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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World

ii /  Gen. 1 v. 26 - 31
Made in God's image, in His likeness

Rulers, Dominion - given authority & sovereignty
Be fruitful & multiply | Subdue it
- cf
  the light
  the fish

• 'male & female'
Qu. Stated in a distinctive way, as a separate point...

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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World

i /  Gen. 1 v. 1 - 25

cf. Summary of the Enuma Elish creation poem
          [Apsu & Tiamat | Ea | Marduck]
 - from Saying Yes To Life by Ruth Valerio

Similarities to Gen 1.:
- "In the beginning.."
- The world created in stages
- Order first created by divine being/s

Differences to Gen 1.:
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.1 Cor 4: 6 - 21 / PM

Paul's questions posed:
◘ What makes you so superior?
◘ What do you have that isn't a gift?
◘ Why do you act as if you're self-made?

[ Paul’s rebuke - Gal 3:3 NLT - How foolish can you be?
After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? ]

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NWC
1. Philippians -- that the bad things in life do not obstruct the way in which you contend for the gospel

Striving together | Purpose
Togetherness; intentionality

A Philippians response to circumstances (Paul & Silas in prison)
All circumstances give opportunity for something positive to happen

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