Radically Happy

Category: Devotional

  • Genesis 5:1-5:32 Adam’s Family

    …an essential part of the image of god … is our ability to create other humans in our own likeness (requiring both the male and female parts of that image). Adam and Eve apparently took that injunction to heart … Help us to manifest the imago dei within us by…

  • Genesis 4:1-4:26 O Brother, Where Are Thou?

    … why Cain’s offering was unacceptable… he wanted God’s approval for selfish reasons, rather than out of a genuine desire for relationship with God… Cain sees the whole world in terms of what it does for — or to — him… seek God for Himself, not for the gifts and…

  • Genesis 3:1 – 3:24 Falling Out

    …I would go further in saying that God actually intended Adam and Eve … to learn to be like God by doing the things God does — creating a very good world out of chaos. Alas, humanity lost sight of God’s ultimate purpose — misinterpreted His second command as restricting…

  • Genesis 2:5 – 2:25 The First Family

    … this feels like the inverse of the story of Mary and Martha. There, we are reminded that it is better to wait on the Lord than to work. Yet in the beginning, the mandate seems rather the other way around. Perhaps before the fall, work was pure worship, rather…

  • Genesis 1:1 – 2:4 The Story of Creation

    Our God is a transforming God! … The most important transformational point of Genesis 1 is whether one accepts the ‘story’ of creation: that God created the world, and humanity, for a good purpose… To quibble over the facts usually serves only to obscure the story … That is not…