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The Hebrew word for light is “or” and look at the word play in Torah. T”or”ah, let your light shine, we are the embodiment of the Torah.

Job 26:7, he stretched out the north over the empty place and hang the earth upon nothing.

Day three is about God separating the land from the waters horizontally. When we get light and then we get water, we plants. Days one through three God creates the globe and then the last thing is all about these plants that just start growing up out of the ground, and specifically fruit plants...

Put creation and justice side-by-side within the present world of sorrow and suffering and sin, what do we have, not the platonic soul picture, where the present world can go to hell or heaven, that simply ignores the goodness of the original creation and of the creator’s intention and the...

What if history isn’t random and we’re actually living in the final chapter? Luke chapter 16, moral line, but when Jesus spoke about condemnation, he didn’t start with a list of outward behaviors, he went much deeper, he went straight to the heart. Jesus pointed to something beneath every sin...

On day two, God separates waters above and below, look up at the blue sky, ancient people imagined the world, that water comes down from above and it’s being held up there, white clouds brush up against the face of the blue ceiling becoming dark, filling up with, there’s an ocean of water up...

That’s not the focus of the Bible story, the focus is on how heaven and earth are being reunited through Jesus and will be completely brought together one day when he returns. So, in the book of Revelation, we get this beautiful image of the garden of Eden, now in the form of a city coming to...

God’s ultimate destiny for his human creatures is the resurrection of the body. The biblical vision of life beyond the grave and God’s ultimate purpose for his human creatures, the good creation of the God of justice and mercy and resurrection is the point at which God’s creation and God’s...

A desert and ocean is something, but the Bible began with God creating out of nothing. The concept of nothing which is almost impossible to imagine and describe, actually has a history beginning with Greek philosophy, but none of that was in the minds of the biblical authors, they didn’t have a...

In verse two of Genesis, we find a description of what we could call the blank canvas that God starts with, the pre-creation state. The earth is formless and empty and that darkness was over the surface of the deep. Deep means deep waters, bottomless waters, these are ways that the ancient...

Unless we see the gospel as a great narrative which finds its way through the dark night of the long years of Israel’s desolation and then bursts out with new life with Jesus’ resurrection. If having been launched, the New Creation is then put to work in the world, that is the primary task of...

We all want certainty, meaning and something solid to stand on, in a world that feels unstable, but what if the confusion comes from how we think about beginnings? Everything we know has an origin, if God made the universe, then surely something must have made God, but there’s a deeper issue...

The project happened through Jesus’ Kingdom work, which reached its climax on the cross and because the power of death was defeated on the cross, that opened the way for creation to be set free from its slavery to decay, from its corruption and death, starting with Jesus’ own physical body...

Jesus having been crucified and then raised from the dead, Jesus ascended, he has gone up to be in the heaven with God. Heaven is God’s dimension of our present reality, but then Jesus has come down with the gift of the Spirit, making Jesus’ presence a reality to all his followers everywhere...

Adam and Eve forfeited their calling as the Royal Priesthood, but God promised that one of their descendants would be an even better priest, who will defeat evil and intervene on their behalf to restore the blessings of Eden. This descendant would be a Royal Priest like Melchizedek, that Abraham...

Now, through Israel’s story, God raises up many people, who could have been this Royal Priest, like Abraham, Moses and David, but they all fail. Their stories point forward, anticipating the ultimate Royal Priest and this brings us to Jesus. In the time of Jesus, the people of Israel were ruled...

God’s inviting everyone to be priests, like Adam and Eve were priests in Eden. But, it turns out the people are afraid of God, and they don’t want to come close to God’s presence and so, Moses goes alone up to the top of Mount Sinai. Moses famously gets the Ten Commandments, the first two being...

The design of the Torah itself, is showing that Israel consistently failed at being the covenant partners that God recruited them to be through Moses on Mount Sinai and so Moses himself anticipate the day in his speeches in the Torah, when God will circumcise the heart, transform the heart of...

There’s a serious lack of rightness we see going on around us and it puts us in a constant state of agitation, anxiety and discontent, but if we’re hungering for righteousness, what we desire is a time and a place when there is true justice, when everybody does right by everybody. If we’re not...

This isn’t just behavior, it’s character, the core character of a person, but depravity, we can overemphasize that to a degree of actually not being faithful to the full portrait of human nature, because humans are a lot more in God’s eyes, than depraved. But that compromised nature is really a...