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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  RC

iv / Gen 2 v. 4 - 17

• The Lord's garden: A temple, a home for God

• Mankind:
 { formed from the dust of the earth
    -  & the breath of Heaven
becomes a link between both

Tree: Knowledge of good & evil
The question is  - do you trust me?
Implicit daily question to Adam & Eve
(or, do ( Read more... )

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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World /  JM

iii /  Gen. 2  v. 1 - 3       Matt. 11: 28 - 30
Life-giving communion with the Lifegiver

• Tabernacle & Temple: expressions of Eden recalled
 Lampstand: Tree of Life / Cherubim: guarding Eden

• Ps 132: ‘resting-place’;
 dwelling-place, used interchangeably

• 1 K. 8: 56  Solomon ( Read more... )

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FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World

ii /  Gen. 1 v. 26 - 31
Made in God's image, in His likeness

Rulers, Dominion - given authority & sovereignty
Be fruitful & multiply | Subdue it
- cf
  the light
  the fish

• 'male & female'
Qu. Stated in a distinctive way, as a separate point...

◘  Note: God gives work to be done before the ( Read more... )

FOUNDATIONS & FRACTURES
Making Sense of the World

i /  Gen. 1 v. 1 - 25

cf. Summary of the Enuma Elish creation poem
          [Apsu & Tiamat | Ea | Marduck]
 - from Saying Yes To Life by Ruth Valerio

Similarities to Gen 1.:
- "In the beginning.."
- The world created in stages
- Order first created by divine being/s

Differences to Gen 1.:
- ( Read more... )

.6. Exodus 24: 1 - 18 / TW
5. Acts 28: 7 - 10  / RC
4. 2 Samuel 9:  1 - 13  / JM
3. 1 Kings 17: 7 - 16  / PM

2. Ruth 2 4 - 16  / PM
Ruth & Boaz:
Someone in a position of power supporting someone in a position of weakness.
Ruth as a woman, a foreigner
- Boaz’ question: belonging
(place, family & social standing)

HierarchyCutting / male workers ( Read more... )

Gen 49:11

He will tether his donkey to a vine,
his colt to the choicest branch;
he will wash his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.

cf: 2 Kings 18:32
Humility, times of peace
... expectations dashed.

Don’t need a regime change
| Need a heart change

He knows what he is doing.

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‘Nature/ Substance/ Being’
• What’s one in God
• What God is

‘Person’
• What’s three in God
• Who God is | Oneness

1. Gen 1 :1 - 2:3 / TW  09-08-20

◘ Trinity: incomprehensible
- cannot fully get your head around it
• Ps 145: a sense of wonder / infinite / unique
• Isaiah 40
This tendency to compare God to other things but He is not like ( Read more... )

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1 Kings 18
◘ Elijah & the prophets

Not a random act but fulfils Deut 11:16 (worship of idols)

cf: Romans 6
"the wages of sin is death"

[ uncomfortable truths ]
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1 Kings 19

'TEAM DESPAIR'  or , 'TEAM RIGHTEOUS ANGER' ?
  - which of the commentators is right?Ahab's actions - may be despised by ( Read more... )

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~ from whom can we learn (or not learn)?
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Hebrews 12:
such a great cloud / a huge crowd of witnesses (NIV / NLT)
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follows on from Heb. 11: "Faith in Action"
the "Hall of Fame" ~  " By faith... "
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- What is faith, as we understand it, in a defined sense?
- Where does / Does faith coalesce with trust?

Heb. 11: "Now faith is confidence in ( Read more... )

Definition of covenant

1: a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement
Gen 13

Lot's unwise choice
- swayed by what looks good
 rather than by what is wise

v.14:  Covenant promise

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Gen 14
Abram's integrity

Mixed responses:
Salem: King Melched / Sodom: King Bera ( Read more... )