All Saints Church Podcast

OTC#5: Genesis Wisdom, Creation Care, and Embodied Difference

On this episode of All Saints Off the Cuff, we pull at loose threads that have come up in our Origins series so far. After sharing personal highlights from Genesis 1, we discuss the practice and ethics of creation care, explore the beauty of ethnic and embodied difference, and conclude with a closer look at how Scripture shapes unity and belonging across culture and gender. 

All of Humanity is God's Family

As we continue to explore the image of God in Genesis 1, we discover that all humans—male and female, of every ethnicity and ability—are made in God’s image and belong to God’s family. It’s as if the Divine Artist has painted a self-portrait in each individual, and also each culture, he has created. When we bless the dignity in others and embrace our embodied differences, we love our neighbors and honor the One Who Made Them.

Crown Jewel, Called to Rule

Humanity is creation's crown jewel, called to rule on behalf of and represent the Creator to the rest of his works. When we understand our identity as divine image bearers, we begin to understand our destiny as God's children. This has big implications for our discipleship as we care for, cultivate, and protect the land and animals God entrusts to us. Thankfully, God sends Jesus, the New Human, to show us the way. 

Watching the Artist Work II

As we continue watching God shape his good world in Genesis 1, we discover wisdom for how we can live the good life now. The final three days of creation reveal that this good life is rightly ordered, attuned to beauty, and bowed in reverence. It requires us to cultivate healthy rhythms, renew our wonder, and reorient our fears and affections toward the Creator. As we do, we join with all creation to magnify The Only One Worthy.

Watching the Artist Work

Watching the divine Artist work should lead us to wonder and give us wisdom to live by. In the first three days of creation, we unearth three practical principles—God promises the dawn will come; God’s best for us includes boundaries; and you can only reproduce who you are—that put this wisdom on full display. Each day also reveals Jesus, the Creator made flesh, in unique and wondrous ways. Listen now to learn more!

Our Chaos is God's Canvas

There is an Artist behind and before the universe. His work reveals his hand, and his heart towards his creation is kind. He alone is the Uncreated One who brings order, purpose, and beauty from chaotic nothingness. When we trust him, our chaos becomes his canvas.

A Beautiful View: Rediscovering Genesis' Origin Story

Genesis 1-3 tells the true story of God creating the universe, with a major focus on the "why". It reveals God’s purposes for creation, God’s special relationship with humanity, and the consequences of trusting or not trusting our Maker. Exploring this ancient cosmology in its context reveals an intentional Creator, invites humility and curiosity, and ultimately points to Jesus of Nazareth as the fulfillment of our story. Join us for Origins, a twelve-week series through Genesis 1-3 to learn more!

Family on Mission

God’s family and God’s mission are inseparable. In Nehemiah’s story, we see a three-part strategy of how to do good works together in our discipleship communities in ways we were never meant to alone: move with God’s heart, understand the local assignment, and have each other’s backs. As we conclude our Formational Family series, ask yourself: How is the Holy Spirit inviting you, and your community, to love the least and seek the lost in this season?

One Song, Many Voices

True Christian unity is like a harmony: one song sung by many voices. Ours is the Song of the Lamb, overflowing from our shared love for, need of, and surrender to Jesus. As we sing the same song around the throne of Christ, The Holy Spirit draws out the distinct notes and unique riffs from our diverse cultures and individual experiences. This harmony provides a powerful, beautiful witness to the world around us, inviting those who don't know Jesus into the song that all creation will sing.
Practically, the message invites the church to harmonize across cultures, political convictions, secondary theological views, and life seasons, emphasizing humility, mutual service, and curiosity. When we pursue unity, the Spirit brings beauty, authority, and life to the world.
We end with a call to self-examination and commitment to community: repent where you cause discord, reject apathy, and join others in singing the gospel song together.

Owning Where We Are w/ Andy Rodgers

We cannot become more like Jesus if we cannot admit where we currently are. Pastor Andy Rodgers of Restored Church explores how confession and confrontation are God's gifts in a healthy spiritual family that enable us to own where we are, so that we can get what we need to be more fully formed into the people He has made us to be.