This podcast (22 min) covers the topics blogged on Genesis 12:
Included posts:
You can download the notes on Genesis 11–12, or the full notes for the series (75-page PDF).
This is the final podcast from the series Formed in God’s Story: Genesis 1–12.
Previous podcasts:
In calling Abraham, God begins the mission of restoring heaven’s reign to the nations of the earth.
The whole earth belongs under God’s sovereign authority, but the nations went their own way (Genesis 10) and the kingdoms tried to take over God’s world (Genesis 11). God responds by calling Abraham into partnership with himself.
God launches a different kind of kingdom. Genesis 12 is the bridge from the nations to God’s nation. Abraham is the bridge to a new world in partnership with divine leadership:
Continue reading “Kingdom: partnership with God (Genesis 12:1-9)”
This podcast (43 min) covers the topics blogged from Genesis 6:
Why was there a flood in Noah’s day? Genesis introduces the story like this:
Genesis 6:1-2 (NIV)
1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Who does sons of God refer to? It is the human descendants in the image of God, as in the previous chapter? Or is it angels?
Open Exodus 4:1-12.
Is the kingdom of God something we establish, or something God brings into being? That’s an important question. Exodus says it comes from God, and yet he acts in partnership with his people.
Continue reading “Who establishes God’s kingdom? (Exodus 4:1-12)”
Seeking the kingdom 