To The Reader

The flood waters have receded and Noah’s family is still standing around the altar as we pick back up where chapter 8 stopped. (Those pesky chapter breaks! If you want to be a better student of scripture, ignore them. Read the whole context until the narrative itself suggests a stopping spot.) Something I hadn’t paid…

You and I, we have Noah to thank for being here. He’s our g-r-e-a-t…Grandpa. I don’t think we generally think of Noah as a prophet, but what else do you call men to whom God reveals things before they happen? I have to give credit where credit is due.., Veggie Tales helped me to notice…

I’ve heard the late Dr. Chuck Missler go through the meanings of the names of the 10 pre-flood patriarchs in Genesis 5. In his lecture he shows how the meanings of their names hint at the Gospel. But I’ve also read people who disagree. They say he stretched the definitions. I decided to look them…

In the flow of the narrative in Genesis 2 we end with a naked couple- probably doing what naked couples do. Then the man calls this fabulous creation “woman” and they are just there- “naked and unashamed.” I can’t prove what I’m about to suggest. It’s an idea. Ponder it and do with it what…

The creation week. In elementary school, we started writing projects with an opening statement. It was meant to summarize what we were about to unpack. “Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning…