Creation Care Sermons

Below are sermons on the environment and stewardship of God’s creation.  If you would like to submit a creation care sermon, please email text files, audio, and/or video to

“Is God Green?”
by John Ortberg
Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
audio (mp3) | transcript | Video

Big Questions Our World Must Answer, Part 2:
Can Our Planet Survive

by Bill Hybels
Willow Creek Community Church
audio (mp3) | transcript | CD

God is Green 1
by Matt Krick
Mars Hill Bible Church
audio (mp3) | text (pdf)

God is Green 2: Serve God Save The Planet
by Matthew Sleeth
Mars Hill Bible Church
audio (mp3)

God is Green 3: crackus drivewaya michiganus
by Rob Bell
Mars Hill Bible Church
audio (mp3) | text (pdf)

God is Green 4: Towers and Tomatoes
Mars Hill Bible Church
audio (mp3) | text (pdf)

God is Green 5: The New Seatbelt
by Matt Krick and Rob Bell
Mars Hill Bible Church
audio (mp3) | text (pdf)

The Environmental Ripple Effect
by Tri Robinson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Boise
audio (mp3)

Becoming an Agent of Change
by Tri Robinson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Boise
audio (mp3)

Where on Earth Are We?
by Tri Robinson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Boise
audio (mp3)

The Neglected Assurance
by Tri Robinson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Boise
audio (mp3)

Creation Care 1: Our Stewardship of Creation
by Ken Wilson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor
audio (mp3) | video (mov) | text (pdf)

Creation Care 2: Understanding the Human Footprint on Planet Earth in Biblical Perspective
by Ken Wilson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor
audio (mp3) | video (mov) | text (pdf)

Creation Care 3: Climate Change
by Ken Wilson, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor
audio (mp3) | video (mov) | text (pdf)

God is Green
by Rick McDaniel, Senior Pastor
Richmond Community Church
audio (mp3) | video (mov)

Christian Faith and the Care for Creation
by Cal DeWitt
University of Wisconsin-Madison
text (word)

Note: This document is also available to listen to in our ‘Audio and Video’ section. There are a few words that are difficult to interpret, resulting in a few blank spaces in the transcript.

How Big Should People Be?
by Bill McKibben
text (Word)

Note: Thanks to Vermont Interfaith Power and Light ( VTIPL ) for permissions regarding this article.

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Many excellent sermons can be found on the Earth Ministry Creation Care Sermons page here.

Earth Ministry is an organization working in partnership with individuals and congregations to respond to the great moral challenge of creation care through education, modeling sustainable lifestyle choices, and organizing for social change through environmental advocacy.

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Written materials as well as a nice PowerPoint presentation are available here from the Creation Care Task Group.

The Creation Care Task Group’s mission is to reach out to local churches in ways that will help them reflect on creation care, along with how it impacts their individual and congregational lives.

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