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Category: Genesis

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  • The Man in the Garden

    The Man in the Garden

    We previously finished walking through the week of creation. Moses took broad strokes and used inexact language in order to show that there is one God, no chaos, and that people were not created in order to give any god power or support through service like the Ancient Near East legends claimed. He is using…

  • The Creation of Humankind

    The Creation of Humankind

    During the creation week, God created the heavens and the earth and has been filling them both. Moses’s language has been inexact. We have not received the minutia of creation. We simply know that God speaks to create and command His creation. Moses has presented God as the sole creator and has called out the…

  • Let There Be Stars, Fish, and Birds

    Let There Be Stars, Fish, and Birds

    We have observed three days of creation. Today we will consider a fourth and fifth day. We have seen Moses using more inexact language than we might like. We have seen that the purpose of Genesis 1 is not to present an exact, detailed account of creation. Moses is painting broad strokes. Though he asserts…

  • Creation: Day One

    Creation: Day One

    Today we begin our expository journey through Genesis 1-11. There are claims that Genesis 1-11 are a separate work from Genesis 12-50. I believe they are one, cohesive work, each chapter consisting of literal history. Chapters 1-11 do differ from Chapters 12-50, however. They are more like the Ancient Near East Myths of the region,…

  • Prepared for God’s Plan

    Prepared for God’s Plan

    Here, we get to finish our current study of Genesis. We have discovered together that God has given two purposes to His people. First, the people of God are to fill the earth with God’s image through both childbearing and through evangelism. Second, the people of God are to cultivate the earth for God’s glory.…

  • Obedience?

    Obedience?

    When we were last together, we discovered that as God brings us closer to Himself, it is He who cultivates our hearts. In response to God’s work within us, we are always observing our own priorities and, hopefully, rearranging them in a way that honors and glorifies God, whose image people were created in. Our…

  • Our Priorities, God’s Character

    Our Priorities, God’s Character

    Every year, I sit down personally to observe my own priorities. I sit down, make a list of the priorities that I have made, and then open the Scriptures to measure whether I have the correct priorities in my personal life. Every year, I am drawn to change when I do this. I am convicted…

  • Does God Need Us?

    Does God Need Us?

    If we believe that God is entirely sovereign, then we must also believe that He is entirely capable of doing the work that He has set out to do on His own. The local church has nothing to offer. Families have nothing to offer. As individuals, we have nothing to offer. People were created in…

  • God’s Purpose or Ours?

    God’s Purpose or Ours?

    Over the past two weeks, we have seen a common theme come up. Evangelism is necessary for those who wish to live as God’s image. This idea speaks boldly about the state of many churches in the modern world. Conflict is prominent in too many congregations. Churches are split. People cannot get over their disagreements.…