Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer

How can the psalmist say that those who walk in the instruction of the Lord do no wrong?

Music Credit: Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio from Brandenburg Concerto, No. 1, Movement 4

When God walked Eve down the aisle to Adam, so to speak, and introduced her to him, Adam would have noticed the complementary differences between him and Eve—differences in shape and soul. In this de…

When we consult God’s word for knowledge, wisdom, and guidance, we are encountering God himself. How does this fact affect our treatment of God’s word and our attention to it?

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Genesis 2:22 records the first wedding. One big difference between Adam and Eve’s wedding and the typical modern wedding is that Adam had never seen his wife before God brought her to him. What did A…

In this episode, Pastor Biebert introduces you to the largest chapter in the Bible, and leads you in reflecting on its first verse.

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The Bible says that God “formed” the man, but that he “built” the woman. Why the difference?

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“Praise the Lord, for…he is coming to judge the earth!” That doesn’t sound like something we can say without either having a death wish or being extremely arrogant. But the psalmist encourages us to …

In Genesis 2:20, we learn God’s main purpose in having the animals brought to Adam and in having him name them.

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Have you ever thought some piece of news was so good and joyful that you honestly thought it was a crying shame that the grass, ponds, and hills weren’t able to join you in your happiness? Such is th…

“So the man gave names to all the domestic animals, to the birds of the sky, and to all the animals of the open country.” Sounds pretty simple, until you start unpacking the logistics of it.

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In these verses of Psalm 98, the psalmist encourages us to respond to the Lord’s salvation with sincerity, energy, and joy, and he encourages us to pair our words with dignified and joyful music.

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In this episode, we begin to look at Adam’s naming of the animals, which starts with God’s forming of the animals from the ground.

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The questions, “Is there a God?”, “Is there life after death?”, and “Are we alone?” are often presented as unanswered questions. That couldn’t be further from the truth, according to Psalm 98.

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At the end of the first five days of creation, God saw that what he had made was good. But on Day 6, the words “not good” make their first appearance. God’s world will be incomplete and imperfect, un…

The psalmist gives us an occasion to talk about the Bible use of anthropomorphism with God—ascribing human features to the supernatural, spiritual.

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When God says that it’s not good for the man to be alone, we usually think of ordinary companionship. But God is also teaching us something about worship.

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Does the command to sing a new song to the Lord mean that no hymns and Christian songs from the past should ever be sung?

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“On the day you eat of it, you shall sure die” (Gen. 2:17). Pretty important information, right? God only gave that information to Adam. Why? And what does that tell us about God’s will for families?

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“Sinners will be consumed from the earth, and the wicked—they will be no more” (Ps. 104:35). This is both a reason for our earnest prayers and a reason for our praise.

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In this episode, Pastor Biebert addresses the age-old question: Why did God put the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden in the first place?

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