Last week, we began broadly by seeing that God is Creator of all and as such He has authority over everything and knows how His creation works best. This week, we narrow our focus to the creation of people. While we normally read Genesis 1-2 as one complete thought—that God created everything in six days and rested on the...

The story of Scripture begins where we would expect, with creation. And that makes complete sense. Creation is the logical place to begin telling God’s story because it is where we stepped into the story—or more correctly, where God brought us into His story. But there is another reason why this is not just the logical place to begin the...