Like his grandfather Abraham, Jacob has nothing in his waking world to guarantee his role as promise-receiver and promise-bearer.  Yet God interrupts his scheming and shame to introduce him to his new world of the gospel.

Dr. Estelle looks at Gen. 22 and explores the exact nature of Abraham’s faith as seen in this passage and Christ as the ultimate answer to his “problem.”

 In our task of theological education and preparation for the ministry we often sense a feeling of need, a desire for more.  

Office Hours talks with Dr. Joshua J. Van Ee about The Wisdom of Abraham

Office Hours talks with Dr. David M. VanDrunen about a recent volume he co-edited with Robert F. Cochran entitled Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions.

The acts of God in clothing Adam and Eve and their subsequent extirpation from the garden are chiefly merciful acts.

The act of Adam renaming his wife Eve is significant because it refers to something new in the redemptive purpose of God.

The Lord responds to Adam and Eve's sin in justice and mercy, anticipating the cosmic battle between Messiah and Satan.

Restoration and recovery can be attributed only to the intervention of God and only because he is the Lord God.

When Adam and Eve demoted God they demeaned themselves.

Evil cannot be addressed unless sin is delt with.

Though our first parents embraced the distorted words of the serpent, God's Word comes with promises and freedom for his creatures.

In the conversation about God's Word, Satan enlarged the prohibition, reduced the penalty, and distorted the divine intention.

The knowledge of good and evil with its positive and negative consequences is at the heart of human history.

Though he knew it would be ruined and marred, God brought everything into being to display His grace and mercy.

Genesis 3 is of the utmost importance because it is foundational to the Bible and foundational to life.