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Come away
Genesis 12.1–4; John 3.1–17
Read more: Come awayThe Hebrew scholar Naham M Sarna notes that there’s a crescendo that happens when God tells Abraham to “go.” God lists all that Abram would be leaving behind in increasing intimacy, increasing seriousness. “Leave your native land, leave your extended family, leave your father’s house. I am taking you somewhere new.” Quite a big ask,…
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Assistant Regional Managers of the planet
Isaiah 11.1–9
Read more: Assistant Regional Managers of the planetGod made sky and water and earth and heaven and birds and fish and beasts and creeping things and plants and called all of it good. Then, to top it all off, God made humans. God said “let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule the fish of the…
God and us
Sermons on Genesis
2nd Peter (1) Acts (5) Genesis (2) Hebrews (1) Isaiah (1) Jeremiah (1) Job (1) John (4) Lamentations (1) Luke (6) Matthew (2) Ruth (2)