God Creatively Alters Us
This is the sermon I preached on Sunday, 3/10 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church . The text was John 3:14-21. We know these verses so well. Today, how might it look to hear this story through the lens of God's creativity? This week’s emphasis is being Altered through God’s Creativity. God’s plan has always been that the overarching arc of God’s work in the world has always been love shown in a particular way to all of God’s creation (Lent in a Box). The Spirit's creativity is at work in the beginning, recorded in Genesis. “ In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, …a wind from God swept over the face of the waters” (Gen 1:1-2). In scripture, wind, and spirit are the same word. God’s Spirit was involved in creation. From the beginning, we see God’s Spirit creatively at work. God takes the stories of the lives of Bible heroes, creatively altering what is possible. Remember when Joseph’s brothers dumped him into a pit, and he was sold to the Egyptians? God used