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Genesis 5 looks like a dry list of names and numbers. It records ten generations from Adam to Noah. Most readers skim this chapter to reach the story of the flood. But God hid a message in this geneal...
Think about what creation cost God. He made light with a sentence. "Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light." Genesis 1:3 (NKJV) Stars, oceans, mountains, galaxies — all of it came th...
There is a beautiful changing of the guard that happened the moment Jesus was brought into the temple as a baby. An old man named Simeon was there. He had been waiting his whole life for the consolati...
Many believers know Jesus redeemed their spirit.We celebrate that.We also believe He heals the body. But between those two is the part we often forget: the mind. Paul shows all three in one promise: "...
Many Christians avoid the Old Testament. They read about judgments, curses, and strict requirements, and they feel afraid. They worry that God will punish them for their failures. But you must read th...
In the first garden, work became a curse. Because of Adam's fall, the ground was resisted, and productivity was tied to "the sweat of your face." It was the birth of stress, anxiety, and the heavy bur...
Blood has a voice. In the first murder in history, Cain killed Abel. It was a religious murder-one brother trying to approach God through performance (his own crops) killing the brother who approached...
David once tried to bring the Ark of the Covenant-the symbol of God's presence-back to his city. He did it with great fanfare and a new cart, but it ended in tragedy. A man named Uzzah reached out to...
Creation was glorious,but redemption is greater. Creation required God's power.Redemption required God's heart. Creation shaped the world.Redemption saved it. When God created Adam, there was beauty.B...
There is a Chinese proverb: "Don't ask the fish about the water." Why? Because the fish is so immersed in the water, it cannot describe it. It has no point of reference for anything else. We are the s...
Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Deeply incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It ap...
A courtroom has already delivered the verdict. The judge has left the bench. The gavel has struck. And yet the defendant rises again to ask, "But are you sure?" That is the picture of a believer who d...
The book of Leviticus carries an important picture:a bird couldn't be released until the leper was declared clean. It shows us a shadow of Jesus redemption work. Christ could not be released from deat...
Many wondered what happens after death.But Jesus didn't come only to secure eternity after death - He came to bring life now. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,that whoeve...
A courtroom and a cross say the same thing: the debt has been paid. The difference is that the cross paid it for everyone who will ever believe — two thousand years before they were born. Forgiveness...
Most people spend their entire lives trying to become someone. The gospel says you already are. You did not receive a project at salvation. You received a new identity. God did not hand you a to-do li...
When God created humanity, He formed the mind without decay, confusion, or decline.Clarity was normal.Sharpness was normal.Peace was normal. It was only after the fall that the mind became vulnerable....
Many believers took the Holy Communion with uncertainty:"Am I really forgiven?""Is there still a curse on my life?""Is God holding anything against me?" But Jesus settled this once and for all. When H...
The Holy Communion is not a ritual or symbol, the Bible says it is something to remember. And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do t...
The Bible tells us that as the world grows darker, God's people shine brighter. "For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross (deep/thick) darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise up...