Never again, God said. When the flood waters receded, God sent Noah and his family and the animals off the ark, and they exited (Gen. 8:15–18). I’m pretty sure it was a happy day for all of them. But look what happens next. Sacrifices Just as he had done before the ark, Noah did...
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Noah
Genesis 6:9 – Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. When God inspired Moses to write down Noah’s story, the description was threefold. Noah was … righteous. The name means just. He was lawful. He followed God’s rules. He offered sacrifices as God...
When We Don’t Understand
Engaging Genesis, engaging the Bible as a whole, is important. We’re familiar with many of the stories and characters, sure. But what about when we don’t understand? There’s an awful lot in Genesis (and the Bible as a whole) that can seem confusing. We bog down, uncertain of what God means or how a...
The Cost of Disobedience
Yesterday, we watched the woman walk down the path of deception. Her deception led to a choice, to disobedience. And the cost of disobedience was death. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...
Birthday
Today is my daughter’s birthday. She is eight. And as I thought about what to write about engaging Genesis today, I got to thinking about Meg. I can remember many, many details of the day leading up to her birth. The ‘practice’ contractions that kept me up all night, then stopped at 6 a.m....