An issue of safeguarding
And so we move on to the next chapter in Genesis – chapter 22 – one of the most difficult passages in the whole of the Bible to understand and explain away. How can...
Monthly Archive: September 2014
Worthy of a soap opera
So 16 days into September and we are only 10 chapters into Genesis – not a great rate of progress! These early chapters of Genesis are crucial though in setting the scene for the...
Is downtime a time to be down?
I’m struggling to slow down at the moment. I worked hard and trained hard all summer for two massive events in my life. I launched my second novel ’embrace’ at the end of August and...
The rainbow makes all the difference
Yesterday we talked about the flood in Genesis 6-8 and saw that a flood story was not unusual. What does make this flood narrative from all the others is the rainbow. This was not...
Is God a vegetarian and will heaven be vegan?
The God of Genesis is often called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You can read the stories of these patriarchs in the Jewish Torah, the Islamic Koran and the Christian Bible. All...
Let’s talk about floods
Much of the first part of this post is inspired by Rob Bell’s entry Flood in his series entitled ‘What is the Bible?’ on Tumblr – which is well worth a read. In fact,...
Roots matter
I’ve never had any fascination with tracing my family history but I know plenty of people who have done a fantastic job of filling in the blanks and searching for long lost relatives. I’ve...
Sibling rivalry is alive and kicking!
You get to see all sorts working on checkouts in a store like ours. Yesterday two little girls of identical height were putting on a fantastic display of sibling rivalry. Everything, absolutely everything, was...
Perfect….and then….
I believe in perfect. I believe that at the very start, God created a perfect world. I cannot imagine the details of that, but I do not doubt that it was perfect. Everything lived...
