Swimming Lessons: A Deep Dive into Culture (Page 2)
Swimming Lessons, Week 3: “City of Cain”
The third message in the “Swimming Lessons” series builds upon the previous two, by continuing to chart the descent of human culture into greater and greater brokenness. In this message, Pastor T. C. shows how human culture disintegrated from the original “Garden Culture” to Cain killing his brother Abel. But, the shattering of shalom isn’t confined to individuals. After God marks Cain for his own protection, the story says Cain built a city. Our judgment of and violence toward one…
Swimming Lessons, Week 2: “Judgment Culture”
“Swimming Lessons: A Deep Dive into Culture” is a teaching series exploring the ways we are influenced and formed by the many different cultures we inhabit. Like water to a fish, we can easily be oblivious to the ways the cultures to which we are accustomed. This series is an exploration of the waters we swim in, and instruction from the Scriptures and teachings of Jesus on how to navigate them. In this message, Pastor T. C. picks up the…
Swimming Lessons, Week 1: “Garden Culture”
This message kicks off a new teaching series exploring the ways we are formed and malformed by culture. In this first message, Pastor T. C. lays a foundation for the series by starting where the biblical story starts: in Genesis chapter 1. In the story of Genesis 1 and 2, God creates humanity in God’s “image.” This “image of God” (Latin: imago Dei) is less about attributes humanity possesses and more about a calling with which humanity is blessed. God…
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