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“Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you” (Isaiah 51:1–2). With those words, Isaiah turns our eyes back to one man and one woman whose lives became central to the unfolding story of Scripture. After Eden, the world became fractured. Sin moved through families, cities, nations, and generations. Violence filled the earth. What began as rebellion in the garden spread through the human story and gathered at Babel. The families of the earth were scattered, and the…

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…