Genesis 3:7

When we do not tell others what we are going through, we guarantee disconnection and loneliness.…

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?He……

Whenever I realize I’ve done something wrong, I get this extreme sense of shame and guilt. And I feel as if God is mad at me.…

“The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate”” (Genesis 3:12). Yesterday we read where Adam and Eve were naked in front of each other and they wer……

Mitch Harpur 12/14/2018 10:57:43 pm Thanks again for a thoughtful and centered response. The arguments against true Christianity, as given by the Apostles, are increasingly full of cunning and straw men. Nowdays, it is not always easy to answer without being regarded as ignorant, foolish and ironically even immoral. At...…

The moment Adam and Eve disobeyed God began the story of the fall of man. That fall created a sinful nature for every man and woman in the human race. This…

Before Satan slithered toward God’s first children, before they disobeyed God and sinned, before death entered into our nature, before God’s perfect picture of shalom was shattered, Adam and Eve had bodies. Bodies are not a result of the fall; broken bodies are.…

Hebrews 11:4 Faith is taking worship seriously and coming before God “inspiritand in truth” believing that He is worthy of our focused attention and best offerings. “By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.” (Hebrews 11:2, 3) THE BACKSTORY We might not know the details of what transpired between God and the first family that caused them to u…

BENT, BROKEN, UNBOWED The Ten Commandments for Today Once we hold God in contempt, it is short journey that brings us to holding in contempt those made in His image. Once we stop valuing God, we stop placing a value on what God has created. Certainly, there were many other sins committed between the time Adam and Eve disrespected God and the moment their firstborn killed his brother. But there is a strong connection between a disrespect of God and the disrespect for the life of someone made in H…

The Greek word for sin is hamartia , and the word for knowledge is ology . Therefore, hamartiology is the knowledge of the doctrine of sin. The scriptures speak continuously of the presence and reality of sin in the world. From Adam’s first sin through the final chapters of Revelation, God speaks…