Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we would ever get past the first chapter. Consider: in ancient Near Eastern societies, it was the king who was thought of as an image of God; it was ...

Genesis 1 tells the story of how God spoke the world into existence over six days. The days of creation have a structure and logic. God separates things: light from dark, sky from sea, sea from land ...

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Last week, we left off with Days 6 and 7 of creation. Those two days are unique from the rest of the creative events cataloged in Genesis 1 and so deserve special consideration. Day 6 includes the ...

We can humbly seek their wisdom without treating them as mascots for one position or another. Through that process, I became personally (and painfully) aware of how heated Genesis 1 controversies ...

You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things. This ordering plays an ongoing role among the Hebrew people. The ...

This Sept. 26, 2022, satellite image released by NASA shows Hurricane Ian growing stronger as it barreled toward Cuba. (NASA Worldview/Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via ...

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” As a kid, I would read these first words in my children’s Bible over and over again—not because I found them particularly interesting, but ...

According to new research, young people in the UK are spending most of their time indoors, glued to screens, with little ...