Category Archives: Bible Narrative Project

Genesis 28:10-22, Job 18 Bible Narrative Project Bildad just keeps hammering. Genesis: Unlike Bildad, God comes to comfort Jacob in a dream when Jacob is running away from Esau. Jacob’s dream is of a ziggurat, the same sort of thing the … Continue reading →

Genesis 27-28:9, Job 16-17 Bible Narrative Project First Jacob takes Esau’s birthright, now he takes his blessing. Things happen twice a lot, have you noticed? Pretty soon Jacob will find his Rachel almost like Isaac found his Rebekah…it’s kind of like … Continue reading →

Genesis 25-26, Job 15 Bible Narrative Project Genesis: Jacob and Esau remind me of Cain and Abel. Jacob and Abel are kind of nerdy mama’s boys, and Esau and Cain are the jocks. They just don’t get along. Stories where parents … Continue reading →

Genesis 23-24, Job 12-14 Bible Narrative Project “And who does not know such things as these?” “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes” “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him” I love this story of how Rebekah is chosen … Continue reading →

Genesis 19:30-22, Job 11 Bible Narrative Project Genesis: Those are some twisted sisters. Their offspring are the ancestors of Moab (Ruth, from which King David descends, comes from Moab) and Ammon (just heard about King Nahash of Ammon in the discussion … Continue reading →

Genesis 18-19:29, Job 9-10 Bible Narrative Project Yes, I love how Job talks directly to God. And I don’t think it is a sin to do that. Because sin is what separates us from God, and Job has not cut off … Continue reading →

Genesis 16-17, Job 8 Bible Narrative Project Genesis: I am guilty, like Sarai, of pushing things forward rather than waiting on God. Poor Hagar and poor Ishmael (and poor Abram) would never have had to go through all that conflict with … Continue reading →

Genesis 12-15, Job 6-7 Bible Narrative Project In “Eternity in their Hearts,” Don Richardson talks about the backbone of Christianity, the Abrahamic Covenant, made by God to Abraham 4,000 years ago and recorded in Genesis 12:1-3. Dr. Ralph Winter, director of … Continue reading →

Genesis 11, Job 4-5 Bible Narrative Project Genesis // The Tower of Babel is just good story-telling. In fact, Genesis 1-11 is just good story-telling, on par with Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia. Our Bible rocks because it … Continue reading →

Genesis 6-10, Job 2:11-3:26 Bible Narrative Project Reading to discuss: How should we interpret the Genesis flood account? Whether or not one considers the flood global or local, reference to the Nephilim in Numbers was an exaggeration–the spies were just very … Continue reading →