Today’s Bible reading* features a turning point in the state of our standing before a holy God: The Fall. If you miss this point, you cannot understand the Gospel. God created a perfect world, then He created a man, placed him in a perfect garden to tend it. God created a woman from the man….
In today’s Bible reading, we see examples of praising God for His creation. First off, we see how integral Jesus is to creation. In John 1:1, John parrots Genesis 1:1 with a bit of elaboration. As we saw yesterday, “the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:2 CSB) Straight…
Several times in today’s Bible reading*, we see the phrase “according to their kind”. Moses records the Creation of the various species of plants and animals and remarks that God created them all in an orderly way. The Hebrew word for “kind” allows for some variation from species to species. But the fact remains that…
I’m leading our church to read through the Bible again in 2022. We’re using George Guthrie’s Reading God’s Story One-Year Chronological Plan. You can follow along with me on the YouVersion Bible App and search the reading plans for Reading God’s Story. You’ll see more of why we’re using a chronological Bible reading plan in…
We finish our reading through the New Testament with today’s Bible reading. John describes heaven as the Garden of Eden revisited, with only the Tree of Life, not the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. What was lost in the Garden of Eden has been remade in the new beautiful City of heaven. Where…
In today’s Bible reading*, we see two things that are called, “awe-inspiring”: an awe-inspiring sign in heaven (v. 1) and the awe-inspiring works of God (v. 3). Awe is a word that is foreign to many Believers. We just don’t see things as being “awe-inspiring”. The things of God tend to be, quite frankly, normal. Boring….
