This is a Write 31 Days Post When we study the Bible, it’s helpful to have a sense of the overall patterns in each book that we read. These patterns work like a map, helping us to see how everything in the book relates as well as helping us navigate through each book. In the...
Category: Engaging Genesis – 31 Days
Stories
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...
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...