A Common Life by Jan Karon. A message from our Guest Contributors. Prayer requests from our members. If you have seen the start of a race at a track meet, you know what happens just before the runners sprint from their starting blocks.
Every race has a beginning.
It s exactly the same with everything we know to be all of creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This is perhaps the most important, and the most controversial, sentence of the entire Bible. The word Genesis means beginning, a starting point in time. What it underscores is that life has a starting place, a critical element in a biblical world-view.