This blog series is adapted from Sunday School lessons I wrote several years ago for women and teen girls. The goal was to form a “theology of woman” by looking chronologically at all of the major portions of Scripture regarding women and womanhood. What does the Bible say are the roles, duties, challenges, and opportunities… Read More »
This blog series is adapted from Sunday School lessons I wrote several years ago for women and teen girls. The goal was to form a “theology of woman” by looking chronologically at all of the major portions of Scripture regarding women and womanhood. What does the Bible say are the roles, duties, challenges, and opportunities… Read More »
Have you ever started a Bible reading plan? Have you ever quit a Bible reading plan, say, in the middle of Exodus or Leviticus? 🙂 Many Bible reading plans start at the beginning, in Genesis, which is really quite interesting to dig into. Exodus starts off pretty exciting too, but starts to decrease in the… Read More »
After repeatedly commanding his readers to be patient in suffering (Jas 5:8–9), James points to the prophets and Job as examples for us today: “As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of… Read More »
Many theologians have attempted to bend one knee to the so-called science of evolution and another to the Bible by somehow fitting millions of years into Genesis 1–2. Some claim that Genesis 1–2 is poetry, fancifully telling us that God created all things. This overarching point is good enough, and the details need not be… Read More »
A Focus on Genesis Our English title Genesis is transliterated from the Greek genesis, toledot in Hebrew, meaning something like “generations” or “account,” stemming from the Hebrew verb yalad, meaning “to give birth.” This word is found in the first verse of each section below and acts as a heading for what comes after each… Read More »
A few thousand years ago, God used a worldwide flood to execute His justice upon all men except for Noah and his family (Genesis 6–9). Towards the end of this flood, Genesis 8–9 records for us many terms and concepts that are parallel to the story of creation in Genesis 1. These parallels give the… Read More »
It would have been wonderful if Adam and Eve had never sinned and we all still lived in the Garden of Eden today. At the same time, Adam and Eve would probably point us to Revelation 21–22 and tell us that as good as Eden was, something better is yet to come. The apostle John… Read More »