Oct2018
As we continue to babble on
They said, ‘Now let’s build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth’. Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built, and he said, ‘Now then, these are all… Read more
Oct2018
The same again – but different
‘I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world. Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears, I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings. When the rainbow… Read more
Oct2018
The only response
Noah built an altar to the LORD; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burnt them whole as a sacrifice on the altar. The smell of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, ‘Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what… Read more
Oct2018
Can we watch them drown?
The LORD said to Noah, ‘Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right. Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal. Take also… Read more
Oct2018
Zapping everything evil
When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time, he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret that he said, ‘I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the… Read more
Sep2018
Pray in faith
Are any among you in trouble? They should pray. Are any among you happy? They should sing praises. Are any among you sick? They should send for the church elders, who will pray for them and rub olive oil on them in the name of the Lord. This prayer made in faith will heal the… Read more
Sep2018
God’s mirror lets us look at ourselves
None of us can see our own errors; deliver me, LORD, from hidden faults! Keep me safe, also, from wilful sins; don’t let them rule over me. Then I shall be perfect and free from the evil of sin. (verses 12,13) Read Psalm 19:7-14 When God led my wife and me to serve him in… Read more
Sep2018
Sin is crouching at the door
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, ‘Let’s go out for a walk ‘, When they were out in the countryside, Cain turned on his brother and killed him. The LORD asked Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ (verses 8,9) Read Genesis 4:1-16 Very quickly we see God’s prediction come true. Human relationships are destroyed… Read more
Sep2018
The loss of innocence
That evening they heard the LORD God walking in the garden and they hid from him among the trees. But the LORD God called out to the man, ‘Where are you? He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked’. (verses 8-10) Read Genesis 3:1-24 What… Read more
Sep2018
Free to be….
Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed. (verses 7,8) Read Genesis… Read more
