Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: East of Eden

Rev. Samuel Wirgau studies Genesis 3:20-24 regarding the importance of the name Eve, the significance of the clothing given to Adam and Eve, why Adam and Eve were forced from the Garden, and what might have happened to the Garden of Eden.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: The Fall of the Sexes

Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller studies Genesis 3:15-21 regarding the first Gospel (protoevangelium), battle of the sexes, the glory of womanhood, and the strange hunger for the curse.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: A Treatise on Snake Biology?

Rev. Jeremiah Johnson studies Genesis 3:8-15 regarding hiding from the voice of God in our sin, how Adam and Eve’s finger pointing, and the curse of the serpent.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: Being Like Gods in All the Wrong Ways

Rev. Dr. John Bombaro studies Genesis 3:1-7 regarding the “clothing” of righteousness, the talking snake, when the fall happened, and where Adam was in all of this.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: The Ancient Epidemic of Lonely

Rev. Adam Koontz studies Genesis 2:18-25 regarding marriage as the natural form of life, the role of animals in human relationships, Eve as Adam’s helper, and the proper relationship between men and women.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: Before the Flood Before the Fall

Rev. Andrew Preus studies Genesis 2:5-17 regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Spirit hovering over the waters, making man out of the dust, the pre-flood landscape, and what’s going on with the lack of rain.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: The Genesis of the Heavens and Hosts

Rev. James Preus studies Genesis 2:1-4 regarding who the hosts are, the implications of God finishing work and resting, and what the Sabbath is and why it’s holy.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: The Holiness of Pleasure

Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller studies Genesis 1:26-31 regarding the difference between the creation of man and beasts, how male and female are intrinsic to our humanity, and what it means for humans to have dominion.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: Image-ing God

Rev. Timothy Appel studies Genesis 1:20-26 regarding God’s blessing of creation and the connection of that blessing with procreation, and what it means that God creates humanity in His image and after His likeness.

Sharper Iron & Truth in Genesis: Bob Ross, God and Aliens

Rev. Brian Flamme studies Genesis 1:6-19 regarding what Martin Luther says about angels and other parts of creation, whether speculative theology is ever justified, and what we believe about the creative power of God’s Word.