Table of Contents
Genesis
Genesis means beginnings, and it earns the name: the world, marriage, sin, death, the first promise of a Redeemer, the Flood, the nations, and the family through which every later promise runs, all inside one book.
These studies go chapter by chapter, the same way the rest of the Bible section does.
List Of Articles
Where Everything Begins
Creation, the fall, and the first promise of a Redeemer.
Genesis 1-3Two Lines, A Flood, And A Tower
Two lines, a flood, and a tower — the pathway of evil traced through the table of nations.
Genesis 4-11Get Thee Out
a call with no destination named, a famine that sends him to Egypt, and the separation from Lot that saves the covenant
Genesis 12-13A Priest Of The Most High God
Lot rescued by night, bread and wine from a king with no genealogy, and a covenant sealed while Abram sleeps
Genesis 14-15The God Who Sees Me
a servant fled to the wilderness and named by God there, and the covenant sign cut into every male in the household
Genesis 16-17Is Any Thing Too Hard For The LORD?
three visitors, a laugh overheard, and the last righteous family pulled out of a city about to burn
Genesis 18-19God Remembered Abraham
the same old lie told to a second king, and the long-promised laughter finally born
Genesis 20-21Here Am I
the hardest command in the book, a ram in a thicket, and the mountain later called Moriah
Genesis 22The Servant And The Well
a grave bought at full price, and a prayer answered before it finished being prayed
Genesis 23-24The Sons Of His Old Age
Abraham buried between two reconciled sons, and a birthright sold for one bowl of stew
Genesis 25The Wells His Father Dug
the son who repeats his father almost line for line — the same famine, the same lie about his wife, the same wells — and the God who keeps the same promise anyway
Genesis 26The Voice Is Jacob's Voice
a blind father, a borrowed coat that smells of the field, and a blessing that cannot be called back once it has been spoken
Genesis 27Surely The LORD Is In This Place
a fugitive with a stone for a pillow, a stairway crowded with angels, and a promise renewed to the least deserving man in the family so far
Genesis 28Now Will I Praise The LORD
the deceiver deceived on his own wedding night, and the unloved wife through whom the tribe of Judah, and the Messiah, would come
Genesis 29-30This Heap Is A Witness
twenty years of wages disputed, a household idol hidden under a saddle, and two wary men building a border they both promise not to cross
Genesis 31I Have Seen God Face To Face
a night alone at the ford, a stranger who will not be pinned, a new name bought with a permanent limp, and the brother he feared running to embrace him
Genesis 32-33Should He Deal With Our Sister
a daughter violated, a marriage offered as though nothing had happened, and a revenge by two brothers worse than the crime it answers
Genesis 34Arise, Go Up To Bethel
the altar he vowed twenty years ago and never built, a grave beside the road to Bethlehem, and a second father buried by two reconciled sons
Genesis 35-36Behold, This Dreamer Cometh
a coat that marks a favourite, two dreams best kept quiet, and a pit in the wilderness that turns into a caravan bound for Egypt
Genesis 37She Hath Been More Righteous Than I
the brother who proposed the sale of Joseph, brought up short by a widow he had wronged and a pledge he could not deny
Genesis 38The LORD Was With Joseph
a slave who prospers, a false charge, a second garment left behind as evidence, and the one sentence the chapter keeps repeating
Genesis 39Interpretations Belong To God
two prison dreams read true, a butler who forgets for two years, and a Hebrew brought straight from the dungeon to stand before Pharaoh
Genesis 40-41We Are Verily Guilty
the brothers back before the throne without knowing whose it is, money returned in the sacks, and an old man made to give up Benjamin
Genesis 42-43Instead Of The Lad
a silver cup planted in a sack, and the man who once sold a brother now offering himself as a slave to keep one
Genesis 44It Was Not You That Sent Me
the revealing, weeping heard through the whole house, and a single sentence that re-reads twenty years of wrong
Genesis 45The Days Of My Pilgrimage
an old man carried down to Egypt on Pharaoh's wagons, blessing a king, and calling his own long life few and hard
Genesis 46-47In The Last Days
hands crossed on purpose over two grandsons, and a dying father telling twelve sons what each of them has already become
Genesis 48-49God Meant It Unto Good
a funeral caravan back to the cave Abraham bought, a fear that forgiveness might expire, and a coffin left in Egypt with a promise attached
Genesis 50