When I moved to San Antonio, I knew nothing of Lent. I was brought up Baptist, and we didn't do Lent. I...
In Genesis 12:1, the Lord told Abram to leave everything that was familiar in his life and travel to an unknown land. Along with this command came a promise of great blessing. Verse...
The phrase "blessed to be a blessing" may be overused in some Christian circles today, but its truth must not be forgotten. The case of Abram is exemplary. God promised to bless him...
In our day, if a couple is unable to have children, it can be a source of great sadness. In the Ancient Near East, if a woman failed to produce an heir for...
The Babylonians sought to build a great city with a high tower. In ancient Mesopotamia, pagan temples featured a tower, known as a ziggurat, which was believed to be a residence for the...
The biblical genealogies often contain tidbits of information about some of those whose names appear on the list. Nimrod, for example, is recognized as a great hunter and the founder of a kingdom...
According to Genesis, one of the first results of sin is brokenness in families. In the first chapters, Adam and Eve sinned...
The language of Genesis 9:1 is almost exactly the same as that of Genesis 1:28 ("Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth . . . ."). After God's judgment of the...
When Jesus instructed us to "consider the lilies of the field," he wasn't making the kind of moralistic point we find in the fable of the ant and the grasshopper. In that tale...
For the first time in the Bible, a person builds an altar and offers sacrifices to God. This practice was common in the Ancient Near East, where the altar was often envisioned as...
God reveals himself to us through his Word and Spirit in the miracle of revelation. Equally amazing, God created us to respond...
Clearly God thinks a lot of freedom. It is because we are free to live our ...
Ten years ago, the average person had probably never heard the word "genome," but Francis Collins was already the director of the...
The story of the flood can seem strange to us for many reasons. Partly, we have a hard time comprehending the judgment of God. Knowing God through Jesus Christ, trusting in his grace...
Part 1, Part 2 Ten years ago, the average person had probably never heard the word "'genome," but Francis Collins was already...
Seth was born in the image of his father, Adam ("image" in Hebrew = demut; used also in Gen. 1:26). This statement in verse 3 comes just after verse 1 reiterates the fact that God created human...
In Genesis 3, we saw that one of the first results of sin was brokenness in the relationship between the man and the woman. Genesis 4 reveals that this brokenness is passed on to the next...
They say silence is golden. So why is it that silence is so hard for us? ...
The Garden of Eden was the original paradise, the place where God's perfect intentions for the world were fully realized. But human sin tarnished the perfection, breaking what God fashioned so...
Earlier in Genesis 3 we have seen a glimmer of God's mercy in his calling out to the man as he hid. Now God's mercy flows into tangible help for the first couple...
