by Shannon Popkin | Sep 28, 2022 | Christian Growth, Freedom, Genesis, Goals, Humility, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, True Story of the Beginning
Are you a perfectionist? Do you run yourself ragged with your work, or your ministry? And have you asked yourself why? Now, I’ve often asked, “Why am I so tired?” But I think a better question is: “Why am I driving myself to exhaustion?”...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 21, 2022 | Beauty, Comparison, Genesis, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 4, True Story of the Beginning
Do you ever think of God as stingy? Do you focus on the things that He hasn’t given you? The opening scene of Genesis shows us a different view of God. As we see the waters teaming with life and the birds filling the sky and plants popping up everywhere from the...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 14, 2022 | Differences, Enemy, Gender and Sexuality, Genesis, Parenting, Podcast, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, True Story of the Beginning
Is gender a social construct? And what does it mean to bear God’s image? And how are the two related? The earliest pages of our Bible begin to answer these questions, as we watch our origin story unfold in Genesis 1-3. I’m so thankful to have my friend...
by Shannon Popkin | Sep 7, 2022 | Enemy, Faith, God, Hardship, Hope, Podcast - Torah, Podcast 4, Popular Podcast Episodes, Suffering, True Story of the Beginning
Knowing your origin story matters. Understanding Eden’s grand potential (Genesis 1-s), helps you understand the colossal fall in Genesis 3, and helps shape your understanding of the world and where you’ve come from, and where the story is headed. Think...
by Shannon Popkin | Aug 31, 2022 | Podcast 4
Why do the weeds grow and the flowers die? Why is there cancer, and divorce, and death? And why, even when my life is so full, do I feel so empty? The answers to these questions are found, not in some lengthy discourse, but in a relatively short story about a man and...