WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (3 OF 7)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Psalm 8:1-3
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What A Wonderful World (3 of 7)
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Psalm 8:1-3
(We started out the sermon with a video from BBC One Videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSo1MyWf8g - which displays the wonder of God's creation accompanied by a poetic reading of the song ''What A Wonderful World'')
What a wonderful world we live in.
The Psalmist observed ''When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?'' Psalm 8:3-4
We live on a wonderful world - remarkably designed for life. And the more we know about our planet the more amazing it is that life exists at all. As I was researching for this sermon I ran across a site that told of 154 different factors that would need to be in play in order for life to exist on ANY planet (http://www.reasons.org/articles/fine-tuning-for-life-on-earth-june-2004 154 factors necessary for life to exist on any planet in the universe). Those factors point to the fact that ours is a unique and wondrous example of God's creativeness.
For example Scientists have determined we're in ''goldilocks'' region of our sun.
We're not too far away, not too close... we're JUST RIGHT. If we were much closer the sun we would be cooked to death. If we were much farther away, we would be frozen solid.
More than that, - during its next orbit around the Sun - if the Earth were to deviate by only a fraction of an inch every 20 miles or so we would either freeze/fry within a year.
In fact, our planet is tilted (with regard to sun) in a very ''Goldilocks'' kind of way. As the earth revolves around the sun, it does so at a constant 23 degrees on its axis. Because of that ''tilt'' our planet can support far more life than if we were perpendicular. If the Earth wasn't tilted, the poles would be colder, the equator would be hotter, and less of the earth's surface would be livable. ...
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
Psalm 8:1-3
(We started out the sermon with a video from BBC One Videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSo1MyWf8g - which displays the wonder of God's creation accompanied by a poetic reading of the song ''What A Wonderful World'')
What a wonderful world we live in.
The Psalmist observed ''When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?'' Psalm 8:3-4
We live on a wonderful world - remarkably designed for life. And the more we know about our planet the more amazing it is that life exists at all. As I was researching for this sermon I ran across a site that told of 154 different factors that would need to be in play in order for life to exist on ANY planet (http://www.reasons.org/articles/fine-tuning-for-life-on-earth-june-2004 154 factors necessary for life to exist on any planet in the universe). Those factors point to the fact that ours is a unique and wondrous example of God's creativeness.
For example Scientists have determined we're in ''goldilocks'' region of our sun.
We're not too far away, not too close... we're JUST RIGHT. If we were much closer the sun we would be cooked to death. If we were much farther away, we would be frozen solid.
More than that, - during its next orbit around the Sun - if the Earth were to deviate by only a fraction of an inch every 20 miles or so we would either freeze/fry within a year.
In fact, our planet is tilted (with regard to sun) in a very ''Goldilocks'' kind of way. As the earth revolves around the sun, it does so at a constant 23 degrees on its axis. Because of that ''tilt'' our planet can support far more life than if we were perpendicular. If the Earth wasn't tilted, the poles would be colder, the equator would be hotter, and less of the earth's surface would be livable. ...
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