This is a Write 31 Days post. Genesis is a book of stories. Its focus is beginnings. Its events introduce and orient us to the other books of Moses and to the rest of the Bible. But if we miss, somehow, that Genesis is primarily a story book, we will misunderstand and misinterpret a...
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Beginnings
This is a Write 31 Days Post. The best place to start when engaging the book of Genesis is the concept of beginnings. Genesis is a book of beginnings. Genesis is fifty chapters long and covers a lot of well-known people and events. But the key to understanding Genesis appears at the very start....
Engaging Genesis
This is a Write 31 Post Engaging Genesis (the book of the Bible, I mean) has turned into a life-theme for me during the last few weeks. Every time I turn around, I’m back in the book of Genesis. The fall sermon series at our church, two different Bible studies, and an editing project...
5 Things I Learned This Summer
So here’s what I learned this summer, in five quick notes: I can do hard things. I’ve already talked about all the house and yard stuff we did this summer, so I won’t rehash it here. But in all the projects and scheduling and details, I learned that I really can do hard things....
How Things Change
Timmy was five months old when we moved to our property “in the middle of nowhere.” It’s been pretty obvious how he has grown and changed over the last five years, culminating in his new adventures in Kindergarten this fall. He grew, learned to walk and talk, figured out how to climb trees and keep...