S4:001 Genesis 1-5
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
What is God's design for gender identity and marriage? Today, Emma Dotter is joined by Watermark Family Director Chris Sherrod to walk through how Genesis 1-5 shapes how we live today. God is the designer and definer of reality, so He in His goodness is the one who gets to determine gender and marriage. However, our culture says we are the ones who get to decide our own reality. Genesis 3:15 foreshadows a promise that the rest of the Old Testament unfolds that a serpent-crusher will come to redeem and restore God's creation that sin has distorted.
Additional Scripture Referenced:
Isaiah 29:16 – God is our designer
Isaiah 64:8 – we are all the work of God's hand
Romans 8:18-25 – our bodies will be redeemed and healed fully one day
For a helpful resource on helping children understand gender, check out this book by Marty Machowski God Made Boys and Girls:
https://www.christianbook.com/girls-helping-children-understand-gift-gender/marty-machowski/9781645070313/pd/070315?en=google&event=SHOP&kw=childrens-books-0-20%7C070315&p=1179710&utm_source=google&p=1234083&dv=c&cb_src=google&cb_typ=shopping&cb_cmp=20379181146&cb_adg=157175267691&cb_kyw=&utm_medium=shopping&snav=GMERCH&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsOq6BhDuARIsAGQ4-zjFVPL-Iu9c1Em2ttnLIkV930N0uInCIEPhnZD-xZ3d0HK90BZ2loAaAh7IEALw_wcB
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma Daughter. |
| 0:09.7 | Thanks for joining and happy New Year. |
| 0:12.2 | If you're listening to this episode on Release Day, we are kicking off our 2025 Bible reading plan called Year of the Word. |
| 0:19.7 | As we are celebrating 20 years of Join the journey in this year at Watermark Community |
| 0:24.8 | Church in Dallas, Texas, we are reading the whole Bible cover to cover as a church. |
| 0:30.6 | But if you're listening to this episode after January 1st, 2025, no worries. |
| 0:35.0 | We're glad you're here. |
| 0:36.7 | In this year's reading plan, we'll be reading anywhere |
| 0:39.5 | from two to six-ish chapters per day, and we're here to help. On the podcast, we'll be tackling |
| 0:47.5 | each day's toughest topics, questions, or interpretive challenges, and here with me today is |
| 0:53.6 | faithful Watermark staff member, Chris Sherrod. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello. |
| 0:57.2 | Chris, you are the family director here at Watermark. |
| 1:01.5 | Would you share just a little bit about what that means? |
| 1:04.0 | What is your job? |
| 1:05.2 | Yes, well, thank you. |
| 1:06.7 | So my job is really to try to bring a sense of a big picture perspective on all things related |
| 1:15.1 | to family. |
| 1:15.7 | So that starts with, we offer expecting parents classes. |
| 1:19.7 | Sure. |
| 1:20.6 | And brand new parents, like if you're a brand new mom, we've got the nest or we've got |
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