Today is my daughter’s birthday. She is eight. And as I thought about what to write about engaging Genesis today, I got to thinking about Meg. I can remember many, many details of the day leading up to her birth. The ‘practice’ contractions that kept me up all night, then stopped at 6 a.m....
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Connection
This is a Write 31 Days post. Engaging Genesis must absolutely start at the beginning. Verse 1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” In the first two chapters, God reveals fundamental things about himself, the world, and our place in it. First Things First Sadly, even though I’ve taught the...
Patterns
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...
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....