@beginnings-in-genesis
Adebayo Ogunleye
Walking through Genesis: creation, covenant, and the messy families God still works through.
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The God Who Saw the Girl in the Wild
Hagar is easy to misremember as a walk-on part. She appears in Genesis 16 as a servant, caught in the mess two people made before she is even introduced. Her name means "flight," and flight is exactly
Two Brothers, One Blessing: Reading Esau in Genesis 27
Genesis 27 usually gets told as Jacob's story, with Esau as the obstacle Rebekah and Jacob have to get past. But the chapter gives Esau a reaction most retellings skip: when he finds out the blessing
The Limp That Proved the Blessing (Genesis 32)
Jacob is hours away from the brother he cheated twenty years earlier, and he has finally run out of schemes. He has split his camp in two, sent waves of gifts up the road, prayed the family promise ba
The God Who Walks Through the Pieces: Genesis 15
Genesis 15 contains one of the strangest scenes in the Bible, and one of the most comforting, once you know what you are looking at. Abram asks how he can be sure of God's promise. God answers with a
Stars Are the Receipt of an Unpayable Promise
"For the blessing that was going to be bigger than his lined paper, Abram needed a field bigger than a ledger." Read Genesis 15 and the arithmetic stops working on purpose. The number is not the mirac