My friend sat across from me, twisting her hands in her lap. Our small group, made up of couples from our church, sat around us, discussing the heavy topic of living our lives...
The speed and amount of data coming at us on our computers, laptops, and cellphones, and soon through our glasses and watches, is startling.
The word “helper” often brings with it the connotation of a rather lowly place in our world. Whether it is a chef’s helper in a restaurant or mommy’s helper in the kitchen, being...
Below is my graphical representation of the Gospel. It is the four-chapter story of God’s working in history for the restoration of the cosmos that He created. ...
If you have children, you know that children are born very needy and self-focused. They don’t have the ability to see limits placed upon them, and when the hunger pains begin, they cry...
It’s always hard, returning to Eden. I cannot read these two primeval verses without being simply undone. In all the beauty and beguilement that was going on in this moment still fresh with...
God gave Noah a Herculean task: to build a giant boat, one much longer than a football field, and then to fill...
After the man and woman sin, their first instinct is to hide. They hide from each other and even from themselves (Gen 3:7). Then, as God comes to walk with them in the...
Though we tend to think of God creating the world in six days and then resting on the seventh, the Hebrew of Genesis 2:2 makes it clear that God finished his work by resting.
Dr. Paul Brand was a medical student in London during the devastating air blitz of World War II. Many young English pilots were badly injured as they bravely defended their homeland. ...
The story of work and its purpose unfolds in this commentary on the book of Genesis.
The book of Genesis is the foundation for the theology of work. Any discussion of work in biblical perspective eventually finds itself grounded on passages in this book. Genesis is incomparably significant for...
The first thing the Bible tells us is that God is a creator. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the...
Does work with "material", earthly things have value?
In Genesis, we see God's power displayed through his work, the work of creating the world.
God is the source of everything in creation.
There is no support in Genesis for the notion, which somehow entered Christian imagination, that the world is irredeemably evil and the...
It's not surprising that a relational God accomplishes work in relationship.
Why did God rest from work on the seventh day?
