Read: Genesis 17:7 “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.”How did creation come to be? Who created it?How do we...
Read: Genesis 11:1-9Why does the Earth have so many nations, cultures, and languages? That’s the question that the story of the Tower of Babel tries to answer. Warning: depictions of God before Genesis 12 often seem very strange to us.Human nature is proud, sometimes...
Read: Genesis 9-10I am not an anthropologist, though I do appreciate and respect that field of study. Anthropologists look at ancient cultures objectively and attempt to understand them. Anthropologists have noted that it is a common role of religion in culture to...
Read: Mark 3:22-30If you’re curious about human history and culture, as I am, you probably know that a story of a worldwide flood is told in just about every ancient civilization on Earth. Was there a worldwide flood? Many have some doubts. Scientists say that there...
Read: Genesis 6-9 (yeah, I know it’s a lot)If you visit a church and you look in the nursery there is a good chance that the walls will be decorated with animals in a cartoonish telling of the story of Noah’s ark. It’s a very popular theme, with lots of colorful...
Read: John 1:1-14Let’s talk about the Bible. The word “Bible” means “books or library”. Our Bible is a collection of books, 66 of them, compiled in a collection over the centuries by people of faith. The final decision about what books belonged in the Bible and which...
