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Michael Kelley

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Michael Kelley is an author, editor, and communicator whose previous works include Holy Vocabulary: Rescuing the Language of Faith and The Tough Sayings of Jesus. Born in Texas, Michael holds a Master of Divinity degree from Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. Michael and his wife have three children and live in Nashville, Tennessee.

Everyone Lives. Everyone Dies. Not Everyone Walks.

Genesis 5 isn’t usually a chapter of the Bible we pay a lot of attention to. Creation has happened, complete with God’s crown jewel of humanity, created in His image. Devastation has come upon the creation, as exemplified by the first murder of Abel by Cain. All this happens in Genesis 1-4. Then in Genesis 6, we find the story of Noah. But tucked in between is Genesis 5 – a genealogy that details

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“Real hope is grounded in reality, and the ultimate truth of reality is that we are loved by a busy God—One who never stops working in us.”
Michael Kelley, Wednesdays were Pretty Normal: A Boy, Cancer, And God

“when we show up for one another, the invisible reality of the love of God becomes visible among us.”
Michael Kelley, Wednesdays were Pretty Normal: A Boy, Cancer, And God

“We like to vary our diets between equally unhealthy choices.”
Michael Kelley, Boring: Finding an Extraordinary God in an Ordinary Life

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