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The Bible tells one great story. It is the story of God’s purpose to bring His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Scripture begins with creation and moves toward new creation. It begins with God forming the heavens and the earth, and it ends with God dwelling with His people in a renewed heaven and earth. That story begins in Genesis. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Before sin entered the world,…

Paul charges Timothy before God and Christ Jesus to preach the Word. This is not casual advice from an older preacher to a younger one. It is a solemn commission given in the presence of the living God, the risen Christ, the Judge of the living and the dead, and the King whose appearing and kingdom are coming. Timothy is not free to invent the message. He is charged to herald the Word God has already given. Over these past…

Everything breathes. Breath is essential to human life, and we rarely think about it until we struggle to find it. We breathe when we wake, walk, work, and sleep. Breath is a vital sign of life flowing within us. Paul reaches for that kind of language when he writes to Timothy: “All Scripture is breathed out by God” (2 Timothy 3:16). Scripture is not merely written. It is God-breathed. That one phrase tells us something profound about the nature of…