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Introduction The Israelites were so close to entering the land. Close enough to dispatch spies, but also close enough to cause fear: this was really happening — to what extent could they trust God? How much more simple was living… Continue Reading →
Introduction Once again, we draw our lesson from Leviticus, but this time chapter 26. Leviticus often reads as an unordered collection of practices and can be difficult to make sense of the ordering. Our current passage, however, clearly builds on… Continue Reading →
Introduction We have begun to see the beginning of God’s fulfillment of the promises he made to Abraham. The Israelites remain at the foot of Mt. Sinai receiving the Law (and, as we’ll discuss next week, taking part in the… Continue Reading →
Introduction In our last lesson, we left Noah and his family on dry land, populating and filling the earth, yet the fallenness of humans remained. Still, God had accepted this. His rainbow was the enduring sign of his commitment to… Continue Reading →
Introduction Humans have been expelled from the Garden, but God does not abandon them. While we will pass over the record of the effects of a Fallen World and its consequent aggrandizement under the decisions of Cain (envy leading to… Continue Reading →
How does the Bible begin? While the first several chapters can be analyzed in a number of ways, they serve to establish the premise and nature of human existence. These chapters setup the story: the principle protagonists, antagonists, and the… Continue Reading →
What is the Bible all about? Does it contain some larger narrative spanning all sixty-six books? How would you answer that? Is your answer reflected in the passages you regularly read, or the lessons explicated on a given Sunday? In… Continue Reading →