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Look at the language use to describe the Name in Isaiah 30:27. Behold, the Name of the Lord comes from afar. Looks like we’re getting language that makes the Name sound like a person. In blazing wrath with a heavy burden, his lips. The Name has lips? This language is speaking about the Name as...

Matthew chapter 24, I heard a teaching about the heavens being shaken, heavens were dimensions. The verses you are using, they could be metaphors, like using a curtain as a metaphor. The point is that at the moment it is as though there is a great curtain hanging down through the middle of...

The first sentence of the Bible is actually saying something deeply profound, everything up there and everything down here, it did not cause itself, universes don’t just happen to exist. What’s down here was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, does it sound like a...

Genesis chapter two, so streams come up from the earth, watered the whole surface of the ground, raw materials are there, then the Lord God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Adam, he’s lonely, and so God makes animals and brings them to...

Genesis chapter two, what’s that pairing? It’s about this covenant of marriage, when humans covenant to love each other, they choose not to multiply like rabbits with everybody else, just with each other. When they do that out of that covenant of love, new life comes into existence and is the...

The origins of the universe, but when it comes to the origins of humans, the pinnacle moment of the story, God created humanity in his own image, in the image of God he created him. Who’s him? Not him male singular, him as a singular reference generic to the whole of the human species, male and...

On the seventh day God rests from his work, so what are these seven days about? God’s making his cosmic temple and he’s inaugurating it on the seventh day. The Israelites, they rested after Joshua brings them into the land, so they can get to the business of human flourishing. So God is creating...

Days four and five, God fills this heavens and earth, God delegates and shares that responsibility with the lights above. The lights become images or symbols of God’s own light, they are the rulers above who govern day and night, because once these domains have been ordered, then each of these...

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...