Mack has just started a new Sunday evening sermon series, Mapping the Infinite, subtitled “Looking Deeper into God”. Over thirteen weeks, we’ll be covering the basic storyline and doctrines of the Christian faith, following the sermon titles of Mars Hill Church’s Doctrine series by Mark Driscoll.
The series is as follows:
- Trinity – God Is
- Revelation – God Speaks
- Creation – God Makes
- Image – God Loves
- Fall – God Judges
- Covenant – God Pursues
- Incarnation – God Comes
- Cross – God Dies
- Resurrection – God Saves
- Church – God Sends
- Worship – God Transforms
- Stewardship – God Gives
- Kingdom – God Reigns
As the subtitle to the series, “Looking deeper into God”, and the subtitle to each talk, suggests, the Christian faith is all about who God is and what God has done.
I’ll be preaching “Fall – God Judges” on May 17th, mainly from Genesis 3. I’m currently studying Genesis 3, as well as looking at the themes of the Fall, sin and judgement through the Bible, and try to work it through in own my life.
I’m really beginning to feel the weightiness of the subject. When I agreed with Phillip, who’s organising the series, to preach on the Fall, I had in mind the whole “problem of evil” aspect to it, and how the Fall “explains” evil. But as I’ve gone on, I’ve come to feel more and more the ache of the brokenness of our world, the horror of our sin, and become more convicted of how lightly I treat the seriousness of sin and God’s judgement. It’s very challenging on a personal level to prepare and to preach, so please pray that I will both preach a good sermon and that in preparing it, God will really change me and deal with the sin in my life.
As I study the Bible, think it through and read around the subject, I might post some of my thoughts and interesting snippets that I come across, particularly any intriguing tangents that won’t make it into the sermon. I plan to post my notes on it when I’ve finished too.