Author: Scott

God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” Genesis 3:9,10 In our men’s accountability group, we have learned that if someone stops coming, he has likely returned…
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The serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die . . . you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4,5 On Thanksgiving weekend, as usual, we had far more food than we needed. I had been eating right though, avoiding sugar for months, so I was not worried. I paid…
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A man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:24,25 When in elementary school, I had a recurring dream in which I was sitting at my desk when I…
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You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat . . . Genesis 2:16,17 When I was in India a few years ago, I visited a rural mountain village where I was fed the local cuisine, which included grubs.…
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On the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day. . . . Genesis 2:2 I do not sit still or rest well. I prefer to do, so, when I found myself in the dentist’s chair yesterday, unable to speak or move, I began writing today’s…
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Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Genesis does not explicitly describe what attributes man was given that bore the likeness of God, so there is some room here for interpretation. In the context of previous verse, God made the beasts of the earth (v. 25), it…
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Genesis 1:5 There was evening and there was morning, the first day. When I was four or five, my grandparents took my siblings and me on a drive, just down the road. I should have known, when we all piled in the RV, that this was no short trip. My grandparents felt it was better…
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God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:3  I love waking up before dawn to watch the world grow light. I would like to have been there on that first dawn, when the first star’s light…
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Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  The general theory of relativity, science’s prevailing model for describing the origin of the universe, describes an initial singularity, which contained all the mass, energy, space and time of the universe, compressed into an infinitely dense, small point. Then, at the moment of…
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James 1:19 Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Under the influence of chemicals, my thinking became warped. Not only did I justify my toxic behavior, but my interpersonal relationships were poisoned as well. I was not…
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