Robert J. Nash | Sermons and Resources

  WELCOME I have six kids. And I must say there is something incredible about holding a newborn baby. On the flip side, I have come face to face with death. Mortality is sobering. In seminary, I had the privilege of working part-time as a hospital chaplain. I would visit the sick and dying. Sometimes on call, in the middle of the night, my beeper would go off, and I would rush to the emergency room to listen and pray. I wept with those who wept and grieved with those who grieved. And the longer you live, the more likely you will experience both life and death. I bring this up because we are marching through the book of Genesis, and we read of the first birth and the first human death in history. God had warned Adam that the day he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die. He ate and died spiritually. But God prolonged his physical frame. In place of his death, God took the life of an innocent animal and covered his shame. The Bible says that without the she...