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From the Grave to the Cradle

The Bible has a story, a single story, the story of man’s sin and God’s love. It’s this story that explains why we are as we are, it’s this story that shows why Jesus had to die, and it’s this story that we tell people when we share the gospel with them. This story is our story, and, over ten weeks, we’re going to try to pick out the shape of that story – from Genesis to Revelation. It’s a story that reaches from the Grave of man’s sin in the Garden of Eden to the Cradle of man’s salvation in the cross of Jesus Christ.

Descent

After passing through six landmarks of Old Testament history we move into the era of fulfilment that begins with the long-awaited coming of the Christ. His birth is, therefore, not simply the beginning of something new, but the completion of something ancient. We look at Luke’s account of Gabriel’s annunciation in Luke 1:26-38 which powerfully…

Exile

Our sixth study in this overview of the biblical storyline brings us to the end of the Old Testament and the (or so it would seem) of the Nation of Israel. In 586BC the Babylonian Empire conquered Israel, burned the Temple, and took her people into Exile for 70 years. It was the loss of…

Nation

As a result of the Exodus and the giving of the Law, God transformed the children of Abraham into the nation he had long promised. But, although they stood appeared to be just one more nation among many, they were a nation founded on entirely different and unique principles. I will make you into a…

Law

The fourth landmark event in the Bible’s history is the giving of the law – not as a burden but as a blessing because it allowed Israel, as the nation they had become, to worship him as one people. It did not leave them as individuals seeking God, but as a body bound to God…

Promise

In the wake of the catastrophe of the Fall the early chapters of Genesis depict the spiral of mankind towards utter destruction, a descent that nothing could stop, not even the Flood. And so God engaged in the most important conversation in human history and gave a promise that would change mankind’s destiny, I will make…

Creation

The story of the Bible begins with its creation, an account that doesn’t simply tell us that the world we live in was made, it also makes it clear that, in the very way God created – he invested our world with meaning and with expectation.