Category Archives: Real Restoration

The Torah is hugely important in understanding the New Testament, and we could spend the rest of 2011 and much of 2012 just sorting through that truth. We’ve already seen that much of God’s covenant with Abraham is repeated and … Continue reading →

Let’s look more closely at the several covenants God made with Abraham — Many descendants (Gen 15:5 ESV) 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” … Continue reading →

God’s mission to repair us as broken eikons, that is, flawed images of God, begins with Abraham. You know the story, I’m sure. Abraham was hardly the holiest man we can imagine. He treated his wife badly at times. His … Continue reading →

Story The conflicts that will define the Story — the story of God’s activity among men — are now laid out for the reader — * Satan vs. God by means of mankind. Satan seeks to drive a wedge between … Continue reading →

Cain (Gen 4:8-15 NIV) 8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. 9 Then the LORD said to Cain, … Continue reading →

Caring for the Garden (Gen 2:15 ESV) 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Before the creation of Eve, God gave man a job. You see, … Continue reading →

So God made Adam, placed him in the Garden, gave him the Tree of Life, gave him Eve, and walked with him in the cool of the morning. It was, quite literally, Paradise. But Adam and Eve messed it up. … Continue reading →

A love story There’s just so much that needs saying, but I don’t want to a 100-part series on the Trinity. So this will be altogether too short, but it should be enough to introduce the hero of the story, … Continue reading →

And I dreamed I saw the bomber death planes Riding shotgun in the sky, Turning into butterflies Above our nation. We are stardust, we are golden, We are caught in the devil’s bargain, And we got to get ourselves back … Continue reading →

This idea of “story” is a big deal. The Bible tells a story, and if we don’t hear the story and understand its plot, the conflict, protagonist, antagonist, denouement, climax — the elements of story — we miss much of … Continue reading →