Genesis 1:1-5, 17:1-7, 50:19-20 - "In the beginning..." God spoke into a world of darkness and chaos and called forth light and order. This is the story of Genesis: the creation story, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the tower of Babel, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau, Leah and Rachel, Joseph and his eleven brothers (not to mention his Technicolor Dreamcoat)... Though many of the names are famous, their stories are more faith-less than faithful, more giving in than resisting temptation, more brokenness than wholeness. Dysfunction threatens to rule the day, then as now.

But in the midst of all the chaos of creation and humanity, God still speaks. God is still faithful, even when we are not. And through it all, even what we intend for evil God intends for good.