Preaching Christ from Genesis: Foundations for Expository Sermons (Biblia.com)

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Preaching from Genesis offers solid, practical, homiletical fare. Greidanus analyzes twenty-three Genesis narratives and presents the rhetorical structures and other tropes of each narrative. He also explores various ways of preaching Christ from each narrative and offers sermons exposition and commentary in oral style.

first time in his life, self-sufficient Jacob prays to God for deliverance (9–12).23 At first Jacob thinks that it is a man wrestling with him, but gradually it dawns on him (and us) that this is no mere man. Who can immobilize Jacob with a touch?24 Jacob recognizes a superior being and immediately asks that he bless Jacob. When the person changes Jacob’s name to Israel, he thinks the person may be God, and he knows for sure when the person states, “for you have striven with God.” Jacob asks God

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