Genesis 27:41-45, 28:1-5, 10-22 After Jacob steals his brother Esau’s blessing he runs from him, because Esau wants to kill him. While he is running he has a dream of a ladder, with angels going up and down it, and God speaks to him. When he comes out of that dream, he acknowledges that God […]
Genesis 19:1-29 As Lot and his family flee from Sodom and Gomorrah as it’s being destroyed, Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt. Sometimes, we get caught up in things that cause us to turn back, look behind us, remember the past, and it only leads to our death. When […]
Genesis 22:1-18 Isaac was the son that was promised by God who would make Abraham’s descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. Then God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. A sacrifice of obedience. Abraham was going to do it because he believed God could raise the dead. God intervened before Isaac […]
Genesis 15:1-21 God promised to give Abram a land for his people. God promised Abram that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. And as a seal of this promise, God cut a covenant with Abram. A covenant that only He could fulfill, and if He broke that covenant, He […]
Genesis 11:1-9 The world had one language and began to build a tower to the heavens to make a name for themselves. God came down to earth and intervened, ultimately confusing their languages so the tower was never finished and the people spread all over the earth. In our sinfulness, we have tendency to make […]
Genesis 6:22, 7:11-16, 9:8-17 Noah and his family were saved by building the ark. They gathered all the animals God had told them together. They gathered all the food they would need while on the ark. If you were living in Noah’s time, how would you have looked upon him as he builds this massive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
