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Comment by Lynda Keen on September 21, 2010 at 4:53am

What a very thoughtful sermon.
I think you're absolutely right about the hubris. Douglas Adams in his Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, made mice the most important creatures, with dolphins next and man a very poor third.
We need some humility to become part of the rest of creation rather than the disconnected outsiders we often are.

Comment by Thomas Kirchhoff on September 20, 2010 at 3:52pm

On 4th October is the World Animal Day. Last year I had a sermon on the subject. I translated it and hope it is understandable.

(Sermon on 3rd May 2009, Lutherkirche Bochum)

1 Genesis 1:1-4a 31a 26-2.1-4

In today's sermon text from the book of Genesis we have heard of the creation, by the completion of creation:
"God saw everything he had done what he had made, and it was very good." (Moses 1:31)
Mind you, it was very good, everything was very good. There was no one better and something else might have succeeded so well.
Sometime in the course of history and the interpretation of this statement, the man suddenly called a "crown of creation."
To call themselves the crown of creation is simply human hubris, human arrogance.

I personally agree with the poet Robert Burns in his only action, which he sang in 1785 in his poem "To a Mouse":
"I'm sorry man
Has broken the nice band
that connects all creatures. "

The actual crown of creation, I believe is the seventh day itself The Day the creation is complete in itself.

So we also should come to rest on Sunday, we should remember the resurrection of Jesus and we must also remember with gratitude the joy of creation.

We must exploit the creation that is entrusted to us by God, but not until the bitter end, but we must and should act responsibly and wisely.
People and animals are the creatures of God and to respect as such.

We share the same habitat Earth.

Let's take out the people of the world and only consider the nature that God created animals and plants. We must unfortunately admit that the nature good and much better without the men, the man on the other hand not a single day without animals could not exist without plants without the rest of creation.

This finding should perhaps make us a little bit humble and grateful for God's creation!


Another book of Scripture, which points to the future as future for us all, is the book of Isaiah where the prophet describes the eschatological salvation: "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid one. little child shall lead the calf and the lion and the yearling together. cow and the bear shall feed, their young will lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The infant is at the hole play of the otters, and the weaned child is his hand put in the viper's nest. " (Is 11.6 F)

Dear sisters and brothers, I personally can not imagine my heaven without animals and I believe it to Martin Luther. When his son asked him once, because even if the head of the Luther family, the little dog Belferlein, came into the sky, said Luther. "And also for small Belferlein's is a place in heaven"

The apostle Paul refers to the whole creation in the salvation plan of God and the redemptive work of Christ with one, for he writes in Romans:
"For the creation was subjected to frustration, (...) but to hope that the creation itself will be free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." (Rom 8:20)



I recently read the American writer Henry David Thoreau, who lived about 150 years ago. I would like to conclude my sermon perform a few thoughts on the matter, which in this day and age are still surprisingly relevant and again:


"The true harvest of my daily life is something so incomprehensible and indescribable as the morning and evening light.
I have a little stardust caught, a bit of a rainbow. "

Sisters and brothers in Christ, the times are uncertain and we do not know what awaits us still. But I think we can hope and we must look forward, not just on this Sunday.
If we, as redeemed Christians go through life with open eyes, then we can also see the small and large treasures in God's beautiful creation, then we can say:
"I have a little stardust caught, a bit of a rainbow. "


Amen.

Comment by Nancy Featherman on May 10, 2009 at 3:26pm

I think jesus is character is wounderful.
He came down to Earth as a king yet he didn't expect to be treated like one. in terms of he didnt want fancy robes or lots of money or a place.
He came down on earth from heaven above, So he could die on the Cross at Calavary, so that all our sins would be for given.
and I think that this is a truly asome Sacrafice For God Our Father to Have Made.

Comment by Nancy Featherman on May 1, 2009 at 10:59pm

hello. And may the Lord Bless you and keep you all the days of your life.

Comment by Alan Taylor on April 16, 2009 at 5:46pm

Here I am Lynda, raring to go!

Comment by Lynda Keen on April 12, 2009 at 7:58pm

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