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October 9, 2018
"In the Beginning": God's Covenant with Abraham
There is such staggering beauty in the diversity of the body of Christ. I forget that so often, but I need to fight to remember it every chance I get. And that is what God did for me on a recent trip to South Africa, where I was sharing about The Gospel Project for Kids and Gospel Foundations, a new...
October 2, 2018
"In the Beginning": The Suffering of Job
You might be surprised that we bounce over to the Book of Job this week. It seems rather odd to step out of Genesis mid-story, go into Job for a week, then return to Genesis. But there are two reasons why we are doing this. First, this is where many scholars believe the account of Job took place. They...
September 25, 2018
"In the Beginning": The Tower of Babel
We often refer to the Bible as a story, and this might be a good time to pause and clarify what we mean when we say that. What we don’t mean is that the Bible is fiction. Some people are uncomfortable with saying the Bible is a story because they hear that as a work of fiction, which would, of...
September 18, 2018
"In the Beginning": Noah and the Ark
Can we just talk about the elephant in the corner? Or perhaps it is the two elephants in the corner of the ark we need to talk about? The account of Noah is deeply troubling, isn’t it? There. I said it. Think about what happened here: God wiped out the entire earth’s population except one family. Actually, that’s too...
September 11, 2018
"In the Beginning": Sin Entered the World
What was the first sin? Careful, that isn’t as easy of a question as you might think. No, I am not thinking of how most people would answer, “when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden apple” when the Bible doesn’t say it was an apple, only a piece of fruit. (By the way, somewhere along the line I heard...
September 3, 2018
"In the Beginning": God Created People
Last week, we began broadly by seeing that God is Creator of all and as such He has authority over everything and knows how His creation works best. This week, we narrow our focus to the creation of people. While we normally read Genesis 1-2 as one complete thought—that God created everything in six days and rested on the...