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God rules over and is in control of or in charge of everything. Key Passages: Genesis 45:4-6; Genesis 50:19-20; Acts 2:22-24; Romans 8:28-29; ...

An Echo of Covering for Shame (Genesis 2 and 3)An Echo of Appeasing God’s Wrath (Genesis 8)An Echo of Substitution for Man (Genesis 22)An Echo of Salvation through Judgment (Exodus 12)An Echo of Entering ...

We have been examining the architecture of the divine-human covenants in the Bible to see how these covenants carry forward the Bible’s storyline of God establishing His kingdom over the whole world through His chosen king. Much like all the com...

A couple weeks ago, I gave you a brief introduction and motivation for why you should care about the covenants. Recall that a covenant is a solemn commitment to a particular relationship, guaranteeing promises or obligations undertaken by one or b...

Imagine buying a partially completed house and having to complete that house from its current state. If you didn’t have the original blueprints, there’s a good chance some disaster would happen without knowing how the house had been built up t...

No doubt, reading your Bible is an endeavor in and of itself. Often, I find myself defaulting to Paul’s letters or other “more direct” teaching in the New Testament to fuel my soul. However, in doing so I often lose sight of the broader narr...

Man goes up in sin, God comes down in judgment 1. The Aim Behind Babel (v. 1-4) Significance Security 2: God's Decisive Hand in Babel (v. 5-9) God's AssesmentG...

Session 3 at Ex Nihilo College Spring Retreat 2018...

Proposition: 10 inadequate worldviews that cannot and will not provide ultimate meaning, significance or satisfaction. The path to the proposition: four features of divine creation that are the foundation to the only consi...

Human gender and sexuality is part of God's good design. He created gender to reflect his relational nature within the Trinity. He designed sexuality to be a part of his beautiful plan for marriage. We rebel against His design when we try to make ...

The Story of Joseph and his brothers shows us how God can intend evil for good. “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.” Genesis...

We all desire a perfect world, because that's where we were originally designed to live. Adam and Eve lived in a perfect world, in perfect relationship with God, until the serpent twisted God's words to cast doubt on his goodness and they doubted ...

It's hard to believe that God is doing something profound when you are going through trials, but He is still sovereign and has planned everything for our good....

Through the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah, God furthered His plan of salvation....

The holocaust that God unleashed on the world with the flood was not evidence of God's cruelty, but a part of His divine plane of grace to save us from our depravity....

We need to remember those who perished in the flood because we are no different than them and deserve the same judgment....

Genesis answers three of our most basic questions: how are we here, why are we here, and what happens after we die?...