Our passage this week is Genesis 8:1:9:17, which we divide in two parts. In Genesis 8:1-14, the floodwaters of judgment recede from the earth, concluding the decreation of the earth. In 8:15-9:17, God repopulates the earth through Noah’s family and...

Noah and the Flood is probably one of the most well-known stories of the Bible. We find the record of the flood in Genesis, chapters 6-9. This week we are going to read half of the flood narrative: chapters 6 and 7. In this section we will see the...

In spite of the escalation and progression of sin from Cain and his descendants, Genesis 5 offers a pivotal point in the narrative through a genealogy that records the progression of the line of promise. The hope of one who would crush the serpent...

We return to our series in Genesis with chapter 4. If chapter 3 describes sin’s entrance into the world, chapter 4 describes its tragic spread. We see a clear development and escalation of man’s sin, a further hardening of the human heart against...

How does the Christian view death? Do we have a real hope or is it more of a wish? Earlier in the chapter, Paul provided eyewitness testimony to the fact that Christ was raised from the dead. Next, he speaks to the implications of the resurrection...

Good Friday Service

In preparation for Easter, we are going to step out of Genesis this Sunday and the next to look at Jesus, a chosen and unique servant who has come to deliver us from the curse we read about in Genesis 3. We are jumping into Matthew's Gospel in...

Adam and Eve were created for God with meaning, purpose, and contentment. They were given the charge to fill and subdue. They were given provision to eat from all the trees save one. God gave them rule and freedom. He gave them access to himself as...

As we have seen, Moses is not simply giving a historical narrative of the creation of the cosmos and humanity but he is speaking to people who are struggling in life, in marriage, in parenting and trying to reconcile the challenges of this life with...

In Genesis 1, we met a good God who made a very good creation. In Genesis 2, we do not find a second creation account by another author but a more nuanced and detailed account. If Genesis 1 is a high-level or cosmic view of creation, Genesis 2 narrows...