Month: August 2023

Noah drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. Genesis 9:21-22 We’ve temporarily got a skid-steer at our house, which I intended to use yesterday to do some landscaping. I’d never used…
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He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. Genesis 9:21-22 As a child, I had a decent singing voice, and inevitably, I got a short solo in one of our church’s…
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Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. Genesis 9:20-21 When we stop using drugs or alcohol, something must take its place. We used for a reason – those drugs did something for us. Now,…
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I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Genesis 9:13 As a child, I remember being terrified of a catastrophic flood – a fear which was likely prompted by Sunday School stories of Noah and the ark. To my four-year-old mind,…
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But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. Genesis 8:1 In my addiction, I went to God, begging for miraculous transformation. I hated what I was doing but I was addicted…
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Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. Genesis 7:23 I like people, but I like them in small quantities. I do great in small groups, but I struggle at big parties. It’s my own personal nightmare to be made to mingle and make small talk in a crowded room.…
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He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. Genesis 7:23 Enslaved to my addiction, I knew I needed to go to treatment. But how could I just take a month off work? Someone would notice if I simply…
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And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. Genesis 7:5 If I wear a Minnesota Vikings t-shirt, you don’t assume that I’m claiming to be a member of the team. I’m simply a fan. If, however, I wear a t-shirt that says ATHLETE, I’m claiming something about myself. Well, it just so happens…
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:11-12 It’s always easy…
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Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him. Genesis 6:21-22 Occasionally, on TV or the radio, I’ll hear some Christian speaker preach a message that goes something like…
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