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Review �Core 52 is simply one of the best daily guides in print to strengthen your faith. Mark Moore condenses decades of learning into a succinct and powerful book. Mark is not only brilliant, but he�s also a brilliant communicator of ideas. Core 52 will transform both your Bible IQ and your life.��Jud Wilhite, author of Pursued and senior pastor of Central Church �Whether you are someone who reads the Bible on a regular basis, has never read it, or has started and stopped reading it multiple times, Core 52 is the resource for you! This is an easy-to-use and engaging tool that will strengthen your understanding of God�s Word.��Jon Weece, lead follower at Southland Christian Church and author of Jesus Prom �There is no question that Bible engagement is the single greatest predictor of spiritual growth. That�s why I�m so excited about Core 52. Mark has provided not only a clear on-ramp to understanding the Bible better but also how to apply it to your real life.��Ashley Wooldridge, senior pastor of Christ�s Church of the Valley �Core 52 will allow you to bridge the gap between your biblical training and your professional impact. If you want to speak confidently on biblical topics while helping to lead others on their faith journey, this resource is for you!��Kirk Cousins, pro quarterback �When it comes to knowing and teaching the fundamental insights of Christ, Mark Moore is a maven. In Core 52, you will gain the tools you need for living the life God has called you to. His innovative ideas and colorful illustrations will grab your attention and motivate your will to know Christ and make him known. Start today with chapter 1, be diligent through chapter 52, and you will be satisfied.��Kyle Idleman, senior pastor of Southeast Christian Church and author of Not a Fan and Don�t Give Up �As a women�s Bible study leader, my heart is to help women know God�s Word better so they can learn to connect their everyday frantic lives with their faith in Jesus. Core 52 is a godsend and a perfect tool to help them do just that. Anything I can offer that will help women get the most out of their time in God�s Word is a precious gift indeed. That is what Core 52 does for me as a teacher and the women I lead. What a gift this is from a notable teacher who I have come to trust as an invaluable resource.��Lisa Laizure, Bible study teacher at WomensBibleStudy �Through his earlier books, Mark has taught me more about the Bible than any other author. His clear teaching and sly wit always make me read more pages than I plan. Core 52 is his best yet. Move it to the top of your daily reading list.��Phil Smith, coauthor of Created to Flourish and creator of Eyewitness Bible Series videos �With a pastor�s heart, a scholar�s mind, and a sage�s pen, Mark Moore has given us a gift in Core 52 to help us understand God�s words, be changed by them, and live them out!��Caleb Kaltenbach, author of Messy Grace and God of Tomorrow �My wife saw Core 52 on the counter and looked it over. Her verdict: �This is so good. Why didn�t anyone think of this before? I really like it. A lot.� I think she said it all, except �This book will help you raise your Bible IQ faster than anything I know.� By the way, all my children love listening to Mark Moore because he combines the understanding of a scholar with the communication of a pastor. So that makes Core 52 multigenerationally approved.��Haydn Shaw, author of Generational IQ: Christianity Isn�t Dying, Millennials Aren�t the Problem, and the Future Is Bright �Paul tells young Timothy to be diligent �to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth� (2 Timothy 2:15). Pastor Mark has provided a clear path to make that presentation. This is seminary in a bottle.��Dr. Darryl DelHousaye, president/chancellor of Phoenix Seminary �As a film and television actor, I find myself in different states and countries and in the company of diverse crews and castmates. Often, when people find out that I�m a Christian, they ask about my faith and the Bible. I love sharing what Jesus has done for me, but I wish I was more confident in my knowledge of the Bible. That�s why I�m so grateful for Core 52. It provides a platform for me to have more spiritually meaningful conversations that will help others take their next step toward faith.��LaMonica Garrett, film and television actor known for Designated Survivor, Sons of Anarchy, and The Last Ship �I value being able to discipline myself with a resource that will challenge me and allow me to dive in and study the Word better. Core 52 not only met this challenge, but it also exceeded all my expectations. Mark�s background as a professor, preacher, and teacher is very evident in the strategy behind his book. I travel almost every week, and Core 52 allows me to study God�s Word, memorize his Word, interpret his Word, and implement it in my daily walk with God. Thank you, Mark, for challenging me to be a better Christ follower!��Doug Crozier, CEO of the Solomon Foundation, Parker, CO �As a leader, I believe there are very few things that are worth investing your time and energy into on a daily basis. Learning the many different stories and insights of the Bible is definitely one of them. The issue is that many of us have no clue where to start. With his book Core 52, Mark has created a clear path to greater biblical literacy that, with a little time and effort, anyone can follow.��Carey Nieuwhof, founding pastor of Connexus Church and author of Didn�t See It Coming �In this favorable debut meant to be read daily over the course of a year, Moore, pastor at Christ�s Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona, helps Christians increase biblical competency through the study of 52 passages to �move from Bible curiosity to Bible confidence.���Publishers Weekly Read more About the Author Mark E. Moore�is an acclaimed author and teaching pastor at Christ�s Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona. He previously spent two decades as a New Testament professor at Ozark Christian College. Whether by helping people make sense of Christianity or teaching students to understand the Bible, Mark�s life passion is to make Jesus famous. Mark and his wife, Barbara, reside in Phoenix, Arizona. Read more Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1: CreationQuestion: Why are we here?We live in an immense universe on an extraordinary little blue ball. There�s no question it�s a masterpiece, and at its center is the human species. Yet each of us, treading across this sacred space, wonders why we�re here. What�s our part to play in this theater of life?That all depends on the answer to the following three questions.Who Created This World?All artists leave fingerprints on their work. So knowing the creation gives a glimpse into the nature of the creator. The Bible teaches that God is actually three in one: Father, Son, and Spirit. Though the clearest glimpses of this �Trinity� are in the New Testament, all three peek from behind the curtain as early as Genesis 1:1�3.God the Father is the architect. That�s how the Bible begins: �God created.� Specifically, God created the elements out of nothing. This sounds simple, even obvious. Yet every other creation story from the ancient Near East assumes that what�s eternal is physical matter, not God. The gods merely fashioned preexisting matter into the existing world, like children shaping Play-Doh.The Bible, however, asserts that God alone is eternal. Hence, the universe is an extension of God, not vice versa. This Christian worldview stands in opposition to all worldviews that assert matter as eternal rather than God. This includes polytheism (multiple gods) and pantheism that sees god in inanimate objects such as wind, waves, or animals. The Christian worldview is also in opposition to Darwinian evolution that replaces the eternal God with eternal �stuff.�The idea that God created the earth is a common core among the monotheistic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. However, there�s a factor added by Christians that�s absent from other religions: the Holy Spirit is the engineer. As we read in Genesis 1:2, �The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.� This Hebrew word �hovering� expresses a vibration. The Spirit �quaked� to bring order out of chaos. It�s not dissimilar to a frantic hostess thirty minutes prior to dinner guests arriving. The Spirit was intent on ordering the creation so it would be a life-giving garden.The Hebrew word for �breath� is also translated �spirit.� For example, the breath of God animated Adam in Genesis 2:7. In Genesis 7:22, the word for �breath� is the very word translated �spirit�: �Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.�This is also true of animals, according to Psalm 104:30: �When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.� Every animal that has breath is sustained by the Spirit. The Spirit is the ongoing force of God that gives life, breath, and sustaining energy on earth. He�s relentlessly, intimately, and perpetually involved in the very fabric of our earthly environment. God the Father created; God the Spirit creates.There�s a telltale sign when people ignore the Spirit in creation. Namely, the environment becomes a resource to be exploited rather than a gift to be nurtured. The elements become mute, no longer declaring the glory of God (Psalm 19:1�3). We miss God in the thunderstorm and wind, the bloom of a flower, and the majesty of the mountains. Our environmental insensitivities betray our ignorance of the Spirit�s continued care for every element of our earth. Consequently, Christians restrict worship to a building on Sunday, rather than worshipping daily in the expanse of the universe, where broader culture has replaced the love of the Spirit with the law of the jungle.We need to acknowledge the Spirit in creation.God the Father is the architect. God the Spirit is the engineer. Jesus is the builder. He did the heavy lifting during creation. This is seen in Genesis 1:3: �God said, �Let there be light,� and there was light.� If we lay that alongside John 1:1�3, we see the mechanics of creation: �In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.� This Word, as we learn in verse 14, is none other than Jesus. Even before he came to earth in human form, he was fully God, the embodiment, as it were, of God�s spoken word. When God gave the command, Jesus�the Word�turned the command into creation.The apostle Paul confirmed this:He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities�all things were created through him and for him. (Colossians 1:15�16)What happens when we ignore the role of Jesus in creation? Typically, salvation becomes a future spiritual state in heaven rather than an actual earthly reality. We do, of course, have a future in heaven. Nonetheless, Jesus the creator is equally interested in your eternal life here and now.So there you have it: the Trinity embedded in the first three verses of Genesis. God is the architect, the Spirit is the engineer, and Jesus is the builder. All three are unique and essential to creation. If any of these are ignored, we�ll misunderstand not only the nature of creation but also our own nature and the dignified role God intends for us.Why Did God Create This World?Some suggest that God created because he was lonely. That�s impossible to prove and pretty hard to swallow. God had angels in abundance who could communicate, perform, and do who knows how many other things to entertain, serve, and otherwise delight God. Furthermore, God had himself. God is a community�Father, Son, and Spirit. They love, communicate with, and enjoy one another. There�s nothing lacking in God�s own person that required him to create someone to keep him company.So why did God create?We need look no further than Psalm 102:18 for an answer: �Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.� Every generation that God created�from our primal parents in Eden to our own unborn children�has a singular divine purpose: to bring God glory. This shouldn�t come as a shock. The fingerprints of God in our own souls will drive us in the same direction. Why do we dress fashionably? To look good. Why do we decorate our homes? To impress company. Why do we present a gourmet meal with such panache? To please others and receive praise. Isn�t it our internal impulse to create for others� pleasure and for our own praise? God creates with the same impulse. We�re here for the express purpose of bringing God glory.When we look at our own genetic complexity, we�re awestruck. The fingerprints of an infant, the structure of our eyes, the electrical synapses of the brain�our bodies are works of art. From Olympic spectacles to ballet, from the NBA to National Geographic, we�re stunned by God�s handiwork.David expressed it well: �You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother�s womb� (Psalm 139:13). Without speaking a word, even inanimate objects like mountains and rivers and stars and rainbows acclaim their Creator (89:12; 148:3�10). Creation itself is primary proof of God�s existence (Romans 1:20, 25). By seeing his fingerprints in the world, we�re drawn to his self-portrait in the Bible.Here�s where it gets most majestic. We were made to manage the creation of God. �We are God�s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do� (Ephesians 2:10, niv). We continue God�s act of creation. What makes this more amazing�and what raises the stakes�is that God is personally and perpetually involved in creating and recreating this masterpiece of a world with the help of humans. God created the heavens and the earth�he leaves it up to us to make of it a world even more wonderful.How Did God Restore Creation?This world is a wreck. It all went south in Genesis 3, when Eve was seduced by the serpent. That moment of indiscretion released a cascade of consequences. None of this took God by surprise. But it did take his breath away. He was distraught over the condition of the creation he so cherished.This flows into the story of the Flood (Genesis 6�8), when God hit �reset� on the world. God knew this wasn�t a permanent fix. As the first couple fell in the garden, so Noah�s family failed after the Flood. So, too, Abraham�s nation rebelled. But the plan of God all along was to bring a fallen creation back. Notice he began with a couple, then a family, then a nation. And today his mercy extends to all the earth�every tongue, tribe, and nation. The recovery of Eden is the story of the Bible.The finale, of course, is the story of Jesus. By his blood, Jesus would recreate the human spirit by renewing us through his own Spirit. �If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come� (2 Corinthians 5:17). We�re recreated for good works in Christ (Ephesians 2:10). It�s not a quick fix nor an easy solution.This restoration is not merely for humans but for all creation. Paul expressed it like this:The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.� For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. (Romans 8:19, 22)Key Points~�� Each member of the Trinity plays a vital role in creation.~�� God created for the same reasons we do: for others� pleasure and our own praise.~�� Just as God created the earth, we�re to continue to recreate a world, reflecting his love.This Week Day 1: Read the essay. Day 2: Memorize Genesis 1:1. Day 3: Read Genesis 1�2. Day 4: Meditate on John 1:1; Ephesians 2:10; Colossians 1:15�16. Day 5: Identify one small thing you could do today to help restore Eden where you live.Overachiever Challenge: Memorize John 1:1.Bonus Read: Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery. Read more
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