Old Testament for everyone 

Notes:
pt. 1. Chapters 1-16: In the Beginning -- Sunday -- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday -- Thursday, Friday Morning -- Friday Lunchtime -- Friday Afternoon -- Saturday -- The Creation Story as a Historical -- Parable -- To Put It Another Way. . . -- Human Beings as Gardeners -- A Strange Prohibition and -- a Surprising Experiment -- This Is It! -- Creation Asserts Itself -- Where Are You? -- The Pain of Motherhood -- To Love and to Cherish, to -- Desire and to Dominate -- Work Becomes Toil -- The Expulsion and Its -- Consequences -- The First Family, the First -- Worship, the First Acceptance, -- the First Rejection -- Why Did It Happen to Me? -- Blood Cries Out -- The Mark of Cain -- Bigamy, Music, Technology, Murder --A New Start -- Then He Died -- The Audacity of Hope -- The Peak of Rebellion -- Grace Found Noah -- Filled with Violence -- And God Shut Him In -- But God Remembered Noah -- Never Again -- A Life for a Life -- I Trace the Rainbow through the Rain -- The Nations -- A Journey and a Settlement -- The God Who Intervenes -- Babylon Becomes Babble-on -- Get Yourself Outta Here -- To Be a Blessing -- So Abraham Went -- Stuff Happens -- One Thing Leads to Another -- How to Be a Peacemaker -- An Implausible Promise -- And a Time for War -- What Do You Need to Know? -- Blessing and Tithing -- Do Not Be Afraid -- I Don't Sweat -- How Do You Know? -- On Being Fair to the Peoples of Canaan -- On Not Being Able to Have a Baby -- The Complications of Surrogacy -- Better with Abraham and Sarah than in Egypt -- pt. 1. Chapters 17-50: Your Name Will Be Abraham -- Aliens and Strangers -- A Sign of Grace, Commitment, and Discipline -- Sarai Becomes Sarah -- But What about Ishmael? -- Entertaining Angels Unawares -- The Cry from Sodom -- On Praying for Sodom -- The Sin of Sodom -- Don't Look Back -- Do We Ever Learn? -- At Last -- On Watching Your Son Die -- The Test -- 011 Letting Your Son Die -- Now I Know -- When Your Spouse Dies -- Where to Find Isaac a Wife -- How to Find Isaac a Wife -- The First Romance? -- Brothers United and Divided -- Two Guys Who Need Their -- Heads Banged Together -- Do We Ever Learn? Take Two -- How Stupid Parents Can be -- Words that Cannot Be Undone -- The Stairway to Heaven -- How to Live in a Contractual Relationship with God -- The Deceiver Deceived -- I Want to Know What Love Is -- The Problem of Insight -- The Competition to Be the -- Shrewdest Sheep Farmer -- The Divisiveness of Stuff -- The Pain of a Family Divided by Miles -- Fear -- God Struggles -- Should Our Sister Be Treated like a Whore? -- Do People Change? -- Excluded but Not Forgotten -- The Dreamer -- Another Deceiver Deceived -- God Was with Joseph -- When You Need an Expert -- Save First, Spend Afterward -- What Game Is Joseph Playing? -- What Game Is Genesis Playing? -- Tough Love -- Not You but God -- Call No One Happy until They Are Dead -- Nationalization -- The Younger Again Ahead of the Elder -- Deathbed Promises and Predictions -- Am I in the Place of God?