Genesis chapter 15
Abram fears that he will die and that since he has no children, that his servant would inherent his estate. God makes him a promise that he would have a son and that from him, his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and that he would give Abram and his descendants the land he promised him. It says Abram ( Read more... )

Genesis chapter 14:
An epic battle breaks out between the nations of the land. The city of Sodom was overrun and plundered. After picking which plot of land he wanted. Lot set up camp outside of Sodom. When it was overrun he was taken captive. When Abram heard of this he rounded up a bunch of men from his camp and lead them to battle to rescue Lot ( Read more... )

Genesis Chapter 13:
Abraham begins to acquire a good bit of livestock. His nephew Lot also had a good sized herd. Between the two of them they had too large a herd for the resources that they had to work with. Abraham suggests that they part company so they would not fight over the land. Abram tells Lot, Go ahead, you take first pick and I will ( Read more... )

Genesis chapter 12
After the long list of names in chapter 11 we are introduced to who we all know as father Abraham, who at the time was named Abram. We are also introduced to his wife Sari who we are told cannot have children. Up to this point there is no indication that he is a man of faith or that he comes from a family who is of faith. This ( Read more... )

Chapter 10
This shows the sons of Noah and how they branched out into different tribes and nations. I don't know much about the geography or history of these nations, so I don't really know how I can make this interesting for you. Its pretty much like reading the Hebrew phone book. The only things that I do want to note here is that God wanted ( Read more... )

Chapter 9
God reinstated the cultural mandate, he says go make babies and make cities and nations that glorify me. Then he gives the go-ahead to now eat meat. Steaks and burgers. Yum! Up till this point humans diet only consisted of fruits and veggies. God tells us that he demands the life of any animal that hurts a human. If a dog viciously attacks ( Read more... )

Men I am writing to you because what I see concerns me. I see a lack of discernment among the men today. (Prov. 7:7). Men there are plenty of fish in the sea. Why are you fishing in the toilet bowl? I have seen and heard about too many men chasing after the wrong women. They are oblivious to it but they are chasing their own demise. You are ( Read more... )

At he end of chapter 8 it talk about how Noah built an altar and began giving sacrifices and prayer to God. Prayer is the way we communicate with God. It is the way we talk to him, how we repent of our sins, how we praise him, and how we bring our request to him. Although God does sometimes answer your prayers through his spirit, you may find that ( Read more... )

So God flooded the Earth and wiped out the whole human race and all creatures living on it, sparing Noah and his family and enough animals to start over with. People were only wicked all the time. God looked into the future and saw the snake bite in our existence and sucked the poison out. When the waters began to recede the Ark ran aground on ( Read more... )

God must hold us accountable for our sin. It may not be that we face consequence for every sin, but for some we may face some sort of punishment. The severity of the punishment is for God to decide. For continuous unrepentant sin, God leaves you in your sin and lets it consume you. Genesis says that the spirit of God will not stay with men forever ( Read more... )