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Acts 22: Freedom —— Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman Citizen? He said, Yes. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. —— We all tend to think that freedom is our birthright. […]

Genesis 3: Sin and Sacrifice ——– The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil.” ——– The Christian Gospel says that God Almighty came in human flesh to lay down Life, […]

Genesis 2: Naming Creation ——– Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave […]

Genesis 2: Not Good The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.” —— There aren’t many times God says, “Oops! That’s not good.” Turning Adam loose by himself was one of those times. As far as we know, it was the first “Oops.” God created us to be social […]

Genesis 2: Sabbath ———– Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he […]

Genesis 1: It’s ALL Good! ———- God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. ———- Turn on the news. Any news. Anywhere. Any station. It’s all bad news. Rascals on every hand. Conspirators and kingpins. Subterfuge and side bets. Accusations and […]

Genesis 1: God’s Gift ———— Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the […]

Genesis 1: Rulers of Creation God blessed humanity and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” ———– Sometimes this passage is taken as a […]

Genesis 1: The Image of God Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” […]

Genesis 1: Old Wisdom And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and […]