The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

To those of you who are worshiping at the North campus and at the downtown campus,

thank you so much for being a part of this moment. God is a God

above time and so let's bow and pray together.

Awesome in the sanctuary, are you, O God? The God of Israel,

O God, the God of Israel.

It is you who give strength and power to your people.

And so I'm asking that you would manifest your awesome. your

power on behalf of your power on behalf of your people,

your strength on behalf of your people.

You are terrible and a wonderful God. The death of

your son is the saddest and happiest reality in the universe.

And I pray that you would come and manifest your glory and show us why you made all things

from your holy word, not from the lips of man.

I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.

After the question, does God exist, which two weeks ago God answered I am.

The question that has shaped me,

perhaps us as a church most deeply, is the question, why did he create the world?

And the short answer that resounds through the whole Bible, rolling like thunder across all of its pages virtually,

is the answer, God created the world for his glory.

We'll talk what that means, talk about what that means

in a moment, but let me establish it with some passages of

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