22
Jan

Cain or Abel?

Genesis 4:1-16, 25 – 5:5 Do you see yourself more as Cain, or more as Abel?  Abel the one who pleases God with his offering?  Or Cain, the one who gives into temptation and kills his brother?  And what is a life really worth?  We probably think of ourselves as Abel’s, when in reality we […]

15
Jan

The Fall

Genesis 3:1-24 Adam and Eve had the perfect life, the perfect relationship, the perfect world.  And one little bite of the forbidden fruit changed everything. Sin enters the world.  And along with sin, punishment.  But where there is punishment, there is also promise.  The promise of the Savior who would come and set the world […]

01
Jan

In the Beginning…

Genesis 1:1-25 & Matthew 2:1-12 We begin a journey this new year of reading through the Bible from the beginning and as we start in Genesis, we read those first three words: In the beginning… God created.  God created something out of nothing.  He created light that was called day, and He created darkness that […]