Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,

visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he

preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free

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We start a brand new book of the Bible today,

we're in the Book of Genesis.

If you've got a Bible, it's really easy to find.

Just go to page one, that's all you got to do.

All right, now, hey hey as we get into the book

of Genesis we're going to spend about nine months looking at this incredible book

and we're going to begin in the beginning with this year

at the beginning of the year.

It is absolutely perfect sequencing and timing.

And today we're going to talk about our planet.

Do you like our planet?

It's a great planet. Hey, you know what? It's better than the options right now. It's 10,000 degrees on the sun. Aren't you glad you don't live there? Can you imagine living in that kind of heat? If you're here in July, a little bit. You kind of can, yeah.

And then other planets are so cold, you can't live there right now on Neptune, it's 360 degrees below zero. That's as cold

as a Trump-Biden double date. That's freezing. Nobody could live there. That's

uninhabitable. Instead, we have this amazing great planet,

and it's so much better than the options.

I've been to, I think at least 14 nations,

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