We love to measure the health, success, or sustainability of pretty much anything and everything. We measure our kids by their grades in school. We measure teams by their wins and losses. We measure people by their influence and following on social media. In a world obsessed with measuring “success,” we ought to be assessing in our own lives...

This week’s training notes: This week, your group will be studying Unit 2, Session 3, A World Purged, which focuses on God’s judgment of human sin in a global flood. Here are your three things to know, read, and do as you prepare for this week’s session: Something to know This passage involves a point of difficulty for many...

The Bible is full of promises. As early as the first few chapters of Genesis, we begin to see God make, and even fulfill, His promises: promises for punishment and for blessing, for death and for life, for separation and for salvation. In Noah’s journey to build an ark, survive the flood, and begin to repopulate the earth, we...

This week’s training notes: This week, your group will be studying Unit 2, Session 2, Sin Spreads, which focuses on the first murder as we see how sin progressed from the first humans to all who would follow after them. Here are three things to know, read, and do as you prepare for this week’s session: Something to know...

Siblings often fight and compete as children, and even adults. It may be over something as innocent as who gets the last cookie or as serious as who inherits their parents’ prized heirloom.  The competition Cain felt toward Abel—the world’s first siblings—reminds us that these family tensions can cause great damage to our relationships with one another, with parents,...

This week’s training notes: This week, we’re beginning unit 2 of From Creation to Chaos. This unit is called “Let us Make a Name For Ourselves,” and deals with the fall of humanity into sin and God’s response. Session 1 is called “Relationships Broken” and focuses on Genesis 3:1-21, with Adam and Eve’s sin and subsequent expulsion from the...