Your Foundation for Life

Outline for a sermon preached on November 5, 2017, entitled “Your Foundation for Life” as part of the “Biblical Blueprints for Life” series.

INTRODUCTION

1. I have done useless home repair.
2. We have foundational problems.
3. TEXT: Ephesians 2:20.
4. The Bible nowhere attempts to prove the existence of God.
5. Much of academia tends to ignore the deep questions.
6. Modern Age Mantra: “We have outgrown that myth.”
7. Mankind has never outgrown his need for God.
8. You must have a “why” or life becomes meaningless.

OUTLINE

1. The argument from creation.
   1. The Cosmological Argument.
   2. This is based on the law of causality.
   3. The universe had to come from somewhere.
2. The argument from design.
   1. The Teleological Argument.
   2. The earth is the product of design.
3. The argument from moral law.
   1. The Axiological Argument.
   2. Moral law defines what “ought” to be.
4. The Argument from Being.
   1. The Ontological Argument.
   2. We have emotions, thought and rationality.

CONCLUSION

1. What do you believe?
2. PRAYER.