Protected: The beginning of life as we know it
The solution to getting us back will not be found in us - not even the best of us - but in the best love story ever told: The Story.
The Story [1] (2019)
The Bible as one continuing story of God and his people.
Protected: God builds a nation
God chooses the first unexpected person for the Upper Story: an elderly childless couple to be the parents of a nation.
Protected: From slave to deputy Pharaoh
Even though in the Lower Story some awful things happened to Joseph, God used those things for good in the Upper Story.
Protected: Deliverance
God chose and sent Moses to deliver his people out of slavery.
Protected: New Commands and a New Covenant
Through Moses, God gave his people the wonderful gift of the promise of life - and the best way to live it.
Protected: Wandering
God's people chose to ignore God, and made decisions based on fear instead of trust.
Protected: The Battle Begins
At last God's people enter the Promised Land - but they have to fight for it.
Protected: A few good men… and women
The cycle of Israel's sin, repentance, and deliverance begins apace.
Protected: The faith of a foreign woman
Ruth was a faithful woman - but she was a foreigner. Could God still use her?
Protected: Standing tall… falling hard
Saul is a tragic figure - he had so much promise, and fell from grace so hard.