This Sunday, March 1, is the Second Sunday of Lent, the 40 day season when we prepare spiritually for Easter. My sermon will be the first of a four week series from Old Testament Readings about God’s covenants. We begin with the story of Noah, when God was so disgusted with evil humanity that God wiped out the creation with a flood.   In Genesis 9:8-17, we take up the story after the flood waters have receded: God makes a covenant with Noah and creation never again to wipe everything out with a flood. God does this even though evil humanity hasn’t changed. The crucial change is in the heart of God, who has decided to live with the grief of human evil. It is upon this gracious act of God that we depend for salvation.