Do you praise God for how He created you? It’s amazing how popular Psalm 139 is and yet its example is not often heeded. This text is a silver bullet in the abortion discussion, and it should be. However, with the rise of the transgender and radical feminist movement dominating our culture, I think this text strikes at the heart of the agenda of both. But it is important for Christians to ask themselves if they have followed David’s example of praising YHWH for how He has cre

In hardships, God often seems to bring great blessings. Upon God's pronouncement of the curse on the man and woman because of sin, they are driven out of the garden and barred from re-entering the beautiful garden (Genesis 3:24). They are sent out to cultivate the ground that is now cursed on their own, apart from the excellent and glorious home that God provided. Despite the departure from the garden, God brings another blessing to them. With the Help of Yahweh "Now the man

God created Eve to be a helper. In the beginning, her relationship with Adam was perfect. He would lead and protect, she would help and nurture. In fact, the name “Eve” means “mother of all living.” Bearing and raising children would be the woman’s primary calling. She would live beautifully, displaying joyful and intelligent submission to Adam. For a time, both parties delighted in their roles. But then came the fall. Eve was tempted by the serpent to disobey God, and, befor

"Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face You will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; For you are dust,

Where did sin come from? Sin entered this world not long after its creation. The Bible recounts how in Genesis three, which I would encourage everyone to read but for now, I will summarize and then expound and explain the meaning and outcome of the events which transpired. We started with perfection. The world and everything in it was good; God says so in Genesis 1:31. God created a perfect world, a cultivated garden, for Him to enjoy alongside the creatures He made

Genesis 2:18-25 "He saved the best for last." When God created, He saved some of the best things for last. We know that God was pleased with His creation, because according to Scripture, "God saw that (His creation) was good." Seven times, this phrase or a variation of it is used in the creation account. It takes almost two full chapters before we hear of something that was not good in creation (Gen. 2:18). That declaration of "not good" led to the creation of two very great

83,200 Hours. 4,992,000 Minutes. 299, 520,000 Seconds. That is the time one would spend working if one worked for forty years, working forty hours every week of the year. Work is a constant reality of life. We work tirelessly either for a living, or out of love and joy for someone or something. Work is essential to life and unavoidable. The attitudes toward work are wide-ranging across the world. From seeing it as the path to a livelihood and future to seeing it as a necessar

Introduction Man and woman, God's most glorious creation. The only creatures the Lord made in His image and likeness. For the rest of creation, God spoke and it was so; only for this special creation did He form and sculpt them. After He created these image bearers, the Lord placed them in a marvelous garden and there He gave them this blessing and charge. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the f

"And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in Hi

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 (LSB) So many glorious and weighty truths emerge from the very first verse of the Bible. If recognized, these truths will change our lives. Yet our eyes are so often glazed over, causing us to miss the great truths that the text proclaims and that we need to hear. Genesis 1:1 must not be neglected or rejected by man. The truth it teaches is foundational for everything. This includes all human understanding