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Orchard Church | Pastor Jim Jackson

Feb 25, 2018

The home was originally designed to be relationships of harmony. When God created Adam, He built him with needs that were only met by another person. At the first wedding in Eden, God presented Adam with a wife (Gen. 2:18-25). This first family shared a common God, DNA, and a desire to meet the other’s unique needs....


Feb 18, 2018

Throughout history, most cultures dealt with men and women meeting and marrying by arranged marriage or courtship with parental oversight. Normally, the purpose was to protect their children and ensure the other person was willing and capable of providing for their child. Dating should be done on purpose, with purpose!...


Feb 11, 2018

Though the concept of love is common to all cultures, the Christian definition supersedes all of them as it describes God’s love. There were four Greek words for ‘love’: eros—a sexual, self-seeking kind of love; storgae—a familial/mere acceptance kind of love; phileo—a brotherly affection type of...


Feb 4, 2018

In the beginning God gave Adam and Eve physical life (Heb. nephesh) and a human spirit which was to co-exist with their bodies perpetually on earth (Gen. 2:7). Eden was heaven on earth—peace with God, self, others, and the earth with no sickness, pain, death or dysfunction. However, in Adam’s sin, death...