READ HEBREWS 11:3 Have you ever felt stuck? Or unsure of the right answer? Or what about when the answer doesn’t make sense, feels too difficult, or isn’t what you wanted? I often find myself in this ...  Read More

READ REVELATION 4:11Revelation 4 reveals an incredible scene. If you haven’t read the whole chapter, I would encourage you to do that right now. It is an amazing picture, and John is trying to describ...  Read More

READ JOHN 1:1-3Think about the very beginning when there was nothing but God. No turmoil, no brokenness, just His perfect purpose. This was before the world we know now, with its complications and str...  Read More

READ COLOSSIANS 1:16We all have those moments when we’re fascinated by creation.  We look at the vast world around us and find ourselves amazed by what we see.  Maybe you enjoy hiking up in the mounta...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:22-24I love technology.  I love my tablet, my phone, my laptop.  I couldn’t do most of what I do without technology.  But when I write, I love to start with pen and paper.  There is som...  Read More

“19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am wit...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:20-21Has anyone ever shown you grace when you knew you deserved far worse? I'll never forget the soccer game as a teenager when I got into a fistfight, earned a red card, and was ejecte...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:17-19 Our kids are at the phase of life where their best excuse when they get into trouble is: “It’s not my fault!” Apparently, that is literally the oldest excuse in the book, and we k...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:16 As I reflect on Genesis 3:16, I can’t help but think about the tension that exists in many relationships today. The struggle for control, misunderstandings, and unmet expectations al...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:14-15There’s a tension we all feel—a deep sense that something isn’t right with the world. Whether it’s our own personal struggles, broken relationships, or the evil we witness daily, w...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:12-13 “It wasn’t my fault!” As a parent, I hear this all the time. One of my kids will do something they shouldn’t have done, then when I correct them, they immediately explain to me ho...  Read More

“9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:9-11 I used to navigate life wearing a mask, presenting a façade of strength and composure. “I’m fine, I’m good, life is great.…” These were the rehearsed lines I delivered in conversat...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:7-8I remember being asked a simple, yet profound, question years ago while playing disc golf with one of our student leaders: “What is the hardest part about marriage?” My brain quickly...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:6In Genesis 3:6, we read the account of original sin and the fall of mankind. Eve was tempted by the crafty serpent in the Garden of Eden, and she disobeyed God’s command to not eat of ...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:4-5 Satan is a liar.  Don’t ever forget that truth!  Genesis 3:1 describes him as “more cunning than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made.”  Then, in Gen 3:4-5, the very ...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:2-3I am the proud father of two little girls - one six-year-old, and one three-year-old. Naturally, now that I’m a parent, so many passages of scripture have taken on a whole new meanin...  Read More

“1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had do...  Read More

READ GENESIS 3:1 This scene opens with the woman, full of innocence, living her best life in paradise. I imagine the garden suddenly growing silent as ominous music begins to play, signaling the serpe...  Read More

READ GENESIS 2:22-25Genesis 2:22-25 illustrates the first wedding between man and woman, blessed by God, and it serves as a perfect example of our relationship with Christ.We see the first woman made ...  Read More

READ GENESIS 2:21I often forget that I’m reading Bible stories from the comfort of the "cheap seats." I know how these stories end, but the people living them did not. As a result, it’s easy for me to...  Read More

READ GENESIS 2:18-20 It is not good for man to be alone. God Himself is never alone; as a triune being, Elohim is in constant community with Himself. Relationship is in His very nature. Yet, even thou...  Read More

READ GENESIS 2:15-17 These verses offer us a profound glimpse into God’s heart in creation. He placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, entrusting him with the responsibility to cultivate and care for it. T...  Read More

“26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and ov...  Read More