As we saw last week, the end of chapter 8 in Genesis closes with God making a solemn promise in his heart upon smelling the pleasing aroma of Noah’s sacrifice once he had disembarked the ark: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination …
Imagine waking up one morning and finding that the world as you had known it had been destroyed: No other people around but your family; no wild animals or livestock or birds except those that were with you; no geographic home to return to. Imagine that everything that you had …
Between May 14 and May 16 of 2006, fourteen inches of rain fell in our region in what has come to be known as the Mothers’ Day Flood. As a result of those few days of rain, the water flow levels in the Ipswich River went up 27% higher than …
What are some of the things that first come to mind when you think about Noah? An ark, of course; ditto on the animals; perhaps people mocking Noah for building an ark while living in a dessert. Those raised in Christian homes might immediately have the children’s song, Rise and …
As we’ve previously noted,[1] as soon as the Fall occurred God promised to send Messiah, one who would deliver his people from their guilt, shame, sin—and from attacks from Satan, humanity’s enemy, that ancient serpent. For having deceived the woman and tempted the man, the devil, Satan, who came disguised …
Despite Eve’s succumbing to the serpent’s deception; despite Adam’s disobeying the LORD God’s command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; despite God’s compassionate judgment on both that made their fulfilling the creation mandate more painful, as chapter 4 of Genesis opens we see …
How would you describe the color blue to someone born blind? How would you describe Handel’s Messiah to someone born deaf? How would you describe the taste of chocolate to someone who had no taste buds? How would you describe the feel of a kitten’s fur to someone who had …
One of the notable features in the opening chapters of Genesis is the importance of speech. As we’ve previously noted,[1] in the first chapter each time God speaks, whatever he speaks comes to pass[2] for God’s voice is a true voice. What is more, having formed his creation, he goes …
As we are yet again in the throes of another presidential voting cycle, I was reminded recently of navy vice admiral, Commander William Stockdale, whom Independent candidate Ross Perot chose as his running mate back in 1992. Stockdale famously—or perhaps infamously!—began his vice-presidential debate by asking: “Who am I? Why …
When you first meet someone, what’s the first thing you tell them about yourself? Maybe your name. Or what you do for a living. Perhaps a comment related to the occasion of your meeting—how you know the party’s host; or the couple that is getting married; or the parents of …
