Genesis 1:1-2:4. You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things.

Genesis 1 richly repays reflection. Consider it not just a creation account, but an accounting of the community of creation, of the bringing forth of community by community. The triune God, capable of ...

Creation (Genesis 1) 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.

S oftware developers sometimes encounter a “bug” in a computer program. Not wanting to spend the effort to try to fix the bug ...

Genesis was meant to be read as literal history, creation out of nothing in six 24-hour days. From the extensive genealogies in Genesis 5, Genesis 11, 1 Chronicles 1-8 and Luke 3:23-38, we can ...

One of the lesser-known facts about Genesis 1-2:4a, the story of the seven days of creation, is that it was written in response to a disaster.Judah, the southern kingdom of the Israelite people ...

In Genesis 1 and 2 of the Bible there are two different versions of the story. Chapter 1 seems to say that God created humans, both male and female, at the same time. This seems to me to put the ...

There are already plenty of Genesis 1 studies on offer (including my own, called The Liturgy of Creation).But what the church really needs are more resources to help us engage these discussions ...

The priestly authors of Genesis 1 completed their creation story in Exodus 25-40 with the building of the Tabernacle, a portable temple. There, ...