Back to the Beginning Creation Shapes the Entire Story

So creation is more than a stage or scenery for God’s story. It is integral to the entire story. After all, the entire story is about God’s relationship to his creation, especially to those extraordinary creatures that he had formed from the ground to look after and cultivate his creation

11. Care of Creation- Week 7 Lecture

Dr. Arand explains our role in creation and how we are to care for God\u27s creation in the here and now.https://scholar.csl.edu/care_of_creation/1010/thumbnail.jp

Proper 22 • Hebrews 2:1–13 (14–18)

Not only did God honor us with the role of being responsible over creation, he now honors us by becoming a human creature so that in him, that right dominion would be restored

Living in the Promises and Places of God A Theology of the World

In this discourse mutual witness is possible as the lives of both Christians and non-Christians function as a testimony to part of the story of God

Living In the Promises and Place of God- A Theology of The World

This Concordia Pages explores how locating the story of salvation within the broader, biblical story of creation impacts our witness in the world. In particular, it considers how being placed alongside our fellow creatures as recipients of God’s goodness and mercy opens up the possibility for a reciprocity of witness—the way in which our lives, contingent and intertwined, allow for both Christians and non-Christians to bear witness to the work and wonder of God. In such a context, the uniqueness of the Christian witness finds renewed purchase and possibility

Devotion in an Age of Distraction

Dr. Arand explores our connection to creation in our devotional life

“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription in the Twenty-first Century Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand

The spirit of Augsburg and the method of the Wittenberg theologians carry the content of the Lutheran confessional documents into the many societies and cultures of the twenty-first century in which God calls Lutherans to repeat their confession of faith for the benefit of church and world

Attending to the Beauty of Creation and the New Creation

The beauty of the earth, in all its intricacies, is a gift of the creator to us. And its value is not practical or ethical, but is given to us simply to delight us even as God delights in it. And it is powerful. N. T. Wright notes that beauty, whether in God’s creation or in human art, “is sometimes so powerful that it evokes our very deepest feelings of awe, wonder, gratitude, and reverence.”1 Beauty blossoms into appreciation for God’s creation and love of the creator

The Word of the Cross and the Story of Everything

Dr. Okamoto explains the idea of that the Word of the cross can explain everything

Witness and Worship in Pluralistic America

American society in the twenty- first century poses a myriad of challenges for the church as it seeks to be an effective witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Among these challenges is an increasingly pluralistic cultural and religious context.https://scholar.csl.edu/ebooks/1040/thumbnail.jp