The serpent’s first move is a question, not a temptation. Pastor Adam tracks how the exchange escalates, and argues sin rarely follows a straight line: what she finally sees are…
Adam names the animals and the process establishes something: no suitable helper was found. Pastor Adam treats the naming as a survey returning a negative result, and the absence as…
Four sentences that have carried an enormous amount of argument. Pastor Adam lands on a deliberately balanced formulation — equal but not the same, equal but not interchangeable — and…
God spoke creation into being, then made humanity from the earth and breathed it to life — the act that sets us apart from everything else he made. We were…
A series through Genesis begins with the subject of the first sentence rather than the mechanics of creation: God existed before time and created the beginning itself. Creation is thought…
The bush burns for some time before anyone speaks — God calls only when he sees Moses has gone over to look. Pastor Adam builds on an invitation that was…