Read: Genesis 27:1-45 The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. (v. 22) This story is as iconic as any in the Bible, yet I
Read: Genesis 22:1-19 Abraham . . . took the knife to slaughter his son. (v. 10) This story is from a very different time. The idea of animal sacrifice is
Read: Genesis 18:1-15 Is anything too hard for the LORD? (v. 14) God dropped by Abraham and Sarah’s place for a visit. That’s stunning. Here was God, long before the
Read: Genesis 6:5-22 The LORD regretted he had made man. (v. 6) Ancient Israel didn’t do systematic theology. We have theories about God like “immutability” (God cannot change), which tend
Read: Genesis 4:1-16 And the LORD put a mark on Cain. (v. 15) If this were solely a story about murder, we could read it and move on. After all,
Read: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-24 Did God actually say, “You shall not eat of any tree in the garden”? (3:1) I remember almost dropping the Christian faith years ago because I
Read: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 From childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings. (v. 15) When I was young, we had a brightly illustrated book of Bible stories sandwiched
Read: John 20:19-29 Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails . . . I will never believe. (v. 25) In our current social media culture, we
Read: John 11:19-34 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” (v. 21) In the book The Other Side by Istvan Banyai,
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