Creation Care Sunday on April 24 was an important opportunity to affirm our Christian responsibility to be good and faithful stewards of the earth’s beauty and bounty. Mark's sermon sought a rethinking of many of the familiar themes that keep us from seeing the importance of this calling. These common themes include the classical interpretation of the “fall” from the Garden of Eden, to exclusively understanding “heaven” as something “out there” rather than something pressing into today’s reality, and the popular, but dangerous notion that God’s plan for the earth is condemnation and destruction, rather than redemption and renewal. Focusing on the image of the “new heaven and the new earth” this sermon invites us to look ahead in hope and promise to what God is doing and invites us to work with concern and care for the good creation God has given.
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