26 Mar Are There Two Creation Stories?
Sometimes people believe that the book of Genesis is confused...
Genesis Tag
16 Mar Where is Eden?
The world the Lord has made is physical, beautiful, grand and amazing, and yet before sin ruined it, it would have been much more glorious than we are capable of imagining. Eden was no little garden, no tiny planting of herbs, and no orchard, or minuscule...
16 Feb Genesis 1: Our Birth Certificate
At home, in my closet along with all my clothes, is a shelf reserved for important papers. My passport is there, report cards from my school days, and my birth certificate. My birth certificate is a piece of paper that documents my origins....
15 Dec How Does God See Death?
'The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.' Revelation 20:14b-15. If the Lake of Fire, and final judgement in the book of Revelation is the second death, then...
08 Dec Virus in the Soul
How to describe sin? That is a tricky thing to do. The first place that sin is mentioned in the Bible is Genesis 4:7. The Lord spoke to Cain, saying, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over...
04 Nov Visit to Noah’s Ark Site
It was my joy to travel with Jared a few weeks ago and visit the Noah's Ark National Park. It is also called the 'Durupinar site' after the Turkish army captain Ilhan Durupinar who identified it. We had a great time in visiting and thinking about...
02 Oct Why Forgive 490 Times?
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
22 Sep Why Jesus Went Wild
Doesn't Jesus' behaviour with the whip in the temple seem a bit out of character? Why would someone so caring, known for healing and forgiving, suddenly go kind of psycho? Well, sometimes a little more information changes everything. Here is some background information to do just...
18 Sep When There Is No Gospel
Sometimes when you are talking about Jesus, people raise an objection to God's perceived fairness. 'What about all those people in the Congo jungle who never heard the gospel? Surely God isn't going to send them to Hell for not believing when they never had the...
25 Jul Abraham – Our Father in Faith
Abraham is both remarkable and ordinary. The Ordinary Abraham Abraham was just one man, with a barren wife, who lived in ancient times surrounded by idol worshippers in Mesopotamia. He lived in tents, had sheep and goats, had some servants, and otherwise lived an unremarkable existence. He...
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