Day 1 – Before You, Were He Was
Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, before ink touched parchment, before Moses sat down in the wilderness…
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Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, before ink touched parchment, before Moses sat down in the wilderness…
Adam and Eve had barely learned to live with their own shame before their son Cain is standing over his…
The rain has stopped. The world is quiet in the way that only devastation can make it quiet. Noah is…
When Everything Goes at Once Job is not an easy book. It doesn’t offer clean answers or tidy resolutions. It…
The Question Underneath All the Questions There is a question most of us carry somewhere deep and quiet — the…
When You Need to Say It Out Loud There are seasons in life when being polite about your pain stops…
A Hope That Outlives the Man Who Spoke It There are moments in Scripture where a person says something that…
I Know That My Redeemer Lives Yesterday we left Job with his advocate in heaven and his body in ashes.…
The Question No One Wants to Answer There is a question that has derailed more faith journeys than almost any…
Where Is Wisdom Found? Job has been in this conversation for a long time now. He has listened to his…
The Life You Used to Have There is a particular kind of grief that has no name. It is not…
The Voice You Didn’t Expect For thirty-one chapters, the conversation has had three voices on one side and Job on…
Listen. The Thunder Is Saying Something. Elihu is still speaking. And by now, Job and his friends have probably stopped…
Where Were You? For thirty-seven chapters, Job has been asking God to speak. He has cried out, accused, defended, mourned,…
I Had Heard. Now I Have Seen. We have been in the book of Job for twelve days. Twelve days…
The Promise That Started Everything We have spent twelve days in the book of Job. Twelve days of suffering and…
When You Try To Help God Along Yesterday, Abram stood under a sky full of stars and believed the impossible…
Fire, Salt and the Laugh That Changed Yesterday we left Abraham walking with God toward Sodom, interceding for a city…
God Will Provide the Lamb. There are chapters in the Bible that you read differently depending on where you are…
The God Who Stays Abraham is one hundred and seventy-five years old when he dies. The text says he breathed…
The Ladder Is Still Standing. Jacob is not an easy man to like at the start of his story. He…
When God Says It Is Time to Go. Jacob has been in Haran for twenty years. Twenty years away from…
The Night Everything Changed. Jacob has been running most of his life. Running from Esau after the stolen blessing. Running…
The Boy With the Dreams. God tells Jacob to go back to Bethel. The place where the ladder touched the…
Faithful in the Dark Genesis 38 is the chapter that interrupts the Joseph story at its most suspenseful moment. Joseph…
The Moment the Pit Was Preparing Him For Two years. That is how long Joseph waited in prison after the…
You Meant It for Evil. God Meant It for Good. Something has changed in Judah. The man who sold his…
I Will Go With You. Jacob is one hundred and thirty years old. He has buried a wife he loved…
What God Intended All Along. We have been in Genesis for most of this month. We have watched God make…
Take Off Your Sandals. This Ground Is Holy. Genesis ended with a dying man asking to carry his bones home.…
Send Someone Else The burning bush is still burning. The voice of God is still speaking. And Moses is still…
Every False god will fall The plagues are coming. And before we read them as spectacle frogs and flies and…
The blood on the door Nine plagues and Pharaoh has not moved. His heart has been hardened and softened and…
The sea will make way They are out. After four hundred years, after ten plagues, after a night of blood…
Bread from Heaven and Arms that Tire Three days after the song on the far shore of the sea, the…
The Ten Words Three months after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrive at Sinai. The mountain where Moses saw the burning…
Sealed with Blood The laws continue in chapters 22 and 23 — dozens of specific cases, each one a window…
Make me a dwelling place Moses has been on the mountain forty days. God is giving him detailed instructions for…
Dressed in Glory Carrying Names Before the first word of Genesis was ever written, before ink touched parchment, before Moses…
The God they made themselves Forty days. Moses has been on the mountain for forty days receiving the most detailed,…
Show me your Glory The golden calf has been destroyed. The ringleaders have been executed. The covenant is in pieces…
More than Enough Something extraordinary happens in Exodus 36 before a single beam is raised or a curtain is hung.…
The Glory Filled the House Everything is finished. The last clasp is fastened. The last golden bell is hung on…
The Language of the Altar Most people slow down when they reach Leviticus. The laws, the offerings, the measurements, the…
Raising altars of prayer, worship and the Word across the nations.