It didn’t make any sense and no matter how hard he likely tried, Abraham surely couldn’t make an ounce of sense out of it. It was just baffling. He couldn’t have misheard God—although He probably wished he had. God had told him plainly. Abraham was to take his only son, the son whom he loved, the son of promise,...

There is such staggering beauty in the diversity of the body of Christ. I forget that so often, but I need to fight to remember it every chance I get. And that is what God did for me on a recent trip to South Africa, where I was sharing about The Gospel Project for Kids and Gospel Foundations, a new...

You might be surprised that we bounce over to the Book of Job this week. It seems rather odd to step out of Genesis mid-story, go into Job for a week, then return to Genesis. But there are two reasons why we are doing this. First, this is where many scholars believe the account of Job took place. They...

We often refer to the Bible as a story, and this might be a good time to pause and clarify what we mean when we say that. What we don’t mean is that the Bible is fiction. Some people are uncomfortable with saying the Bible is a story because they hear that as a work of fiction, which would, of...

Can we just talk about the elephant in the corner? Or perhaps it is the two elephants in the corner of the ark we need to talk about? The account of Noah is deeply troubling, isn’t it? There. I said it. Think about what happened here: God wiped out the entire earth’s population except one family. Actually, that’s too...

What was the first sin? Careful, that isn’t as easy of a question as you might think. No, I am not thinking of how most people would answer, “when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden apple” when the Bible doesn’t say it was an apple, only a piece of fruit. (By the way, somewhere along the line I heard...