Daily Reading

“The Lord wiped out every living thing on earth: man and cattle, the creeping things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.” — Genesis 7:23 The flood lasted for one year and ten days and destroyed everything but … Read More

“He said to Noah: ‘I have decided to put an end to all mortals on earth; the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I will destroy them and all life on earth.’ ” —Genesis 6:13 “The sons of heaven had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons” (6:4). “When … Read More

“When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.” —Genesis 5:1 “Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.” —Genesis 5:3 Adam’s descendants lived to be almost a thousand years old. Death was not reigning with … Read More

“If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.” —Genesis 4:24 With sin comes death and a cycle of more sin and more death (Rm 6:23). The first death in the Bible was the murder of Abel by his own brother, Cain. Lamech escalated the conflict, and death began to reign (Rm 5:17). Prayer: Father, through … Read More

“So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” —Genesis 3:6 Mankind sinned by trying to be a god instead of being in God’s likeness. With sin, we brought into the world death, pain, suffering, lust, shame, and … Read More

“The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.” —Genesis 2:7 The human person is both made in the image of God and formed from the earth. We are spiritual and material, co-creators and created. We … Read More

“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.” —Genesis 1:1-2 During the Babylonian exile after the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.), the Israelites were shocked that their entire lives had fallen apart. They … Read More

3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we … Read More

Ahimaaz wanted the honor of carrying the news to the king that the rebellion had been put down. He did not see, as the older general Joab did, that David’s grief over his son’s death would send mixed signals to the nation, causing confusion. This unthinking young man was anxious to deliver what he saw … Read More