Oct 25, 2013
“Thou shalt not…” is not a phrase we typically associate with love. For most of us, the language of commandments or “the Law of God” conjures images of dispassionate judge at best, and a wrathful tyrant at worst. But in the biblical story, Torah (the Hebrew word for Law) was understood at a gift […]
Oct 18, 2013
The promise of salvation is not merely a promise to deliver souls to a blissful afterlife, but rather the rescue of every aspect of creation from the curse of sin. Salvation is about restoring this world (unto eternity). And thus the Project of Salvation begins not with images of harps and clouds, but of God […]
Oct 8, 2013
What will become of this broken world in light of the curse of sin??? – that is the driving question of the biblical story. Will creation unravel entirely, like a cloth that has been torn inexorably apart? Is the cosmos destined to a fate of death and dissolution? Or can thing yet be set […]
Oct 8, 2013
Central to the biblical story is the conviction that something has gone terribly wrong. The world as we experience it is not the world as God intended. In this episode we turn to the biblical explanation why – how humanity moved from the Garden of Eden to a cosmos in which “thorns and thistles” are […]
Oct 4, 2013
Understanding the Bible in its various chapters and verses requires that we first understand the story as a whole. (Hard to make sense of the details when you don’t know much about the big picture.) So for the next 40 weeks or so, I will do my best to trace the outline of the biblical […]