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MOVEMENT ONE: CREATING (1 OF 5)

by Central Christian Church of Arizona

Scripture: Isaiah 45:18
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Movement One: Creating (1 of 5)
Series: Christmas Symphony
Cal Jernigan
Isaiah 45:18


1) About Journals and Journaling

a) Greetings

b) Today is a day of beginning ''new'' things:

i) New times for services (hope you're here)

ii) A new series begins today

iii) We have a new format regarding the bulletin
(1) Pull out bulletin
(2) How this works:
(a) One of these for the month
(b) Look through this
(c) Bring this back every week
(3) This is YOUR JOURNAL FOR THIS ENTIRE MONTH!
(a) The expense and waste of the bulletins
(b) This will be your ''record'' of this entire series!
(4) So do this:
(a) Write your name
(b) Turn to ''Week One''
(i) Write: Creating
(ii) Big Idea: Everybody hears the symphony; God created you to play a part!

iv) The idea of God's symphony
(1) It starts here... builds here... concludes here
(2) All these movements must be all taken together to tell the story
(3) Five Movements:
(a) Creating
(b) Scattering
(c) Gathering
(d) Redeeming
(e) Living
(4) These five, when taken together, tell the complete story of God
(5) As for this symphony -- God is:
(a) The creator
(b) The composer
(c) The conductor
(d) He's even the primary critic

2) In the Beginning

a) Consider this:

i) Isaiah 45:18 ''For this is what the Lord says - he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited - he says: ''I am the Lord, and there is no other.''

ii) American physicist John Wheeler, describes it in this way, ''A life-giving factor lies at the center of the whole machinery and design of the world.''

b) Here's what we know (Anthropic Constants)

i) This planet is uniquely and wonderfully designed to sustain human life upon it.

ii) There are some incredible realities that make life possible. Known as anthropic constants. They are worth noting:

iii) Some examples of anthropic constants:

(1) The earth is ...

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