Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer

When we think of all the beautifies of God’s creation and how he preserves them in working order to this day, then we realize our need for the arts.

Music Credit: Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio from Bran…

In a perfect world, in a perfect garden, the Lord gave work and responsibility to Adam. This tells us something important about work, from God’s perspective.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit s…

The author of Psalm 104 closes with a prayer and song of praise. What does it mean when he asks that the glory of the Lord would endure forever? What is the glory of the Lord? How does it endure?

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Moses says that the river originating in Eden separated from there and turned into four headwaters—the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. Where were they?

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When living creatures gather, are satisfied, are dismayed, die, are created, and are renewed, who is behind it all? The psalmist tells us, and in the episode’s prayer, we ask God to help us apply the…

In Genesis 2:20, Moses switches from talking in a narrative past tense to talking as if he were observing something breathtaking in the present. It’s the first time, but not the last, that the Script…

In spite of the fact that creatures “without number” inhabit the “vast and expansive” seas, the psalmist says that “*all* of them are putting their hope in [God] to give their food at the proper time…

When God planted the Garden of Eden for Adam, he caused all kinds of trees to grow up from the ground, not just so that they would produce food for him, but also so that they would be “pleasing to th…

In Psalm 104:25, the psalmist reaches Day 5 of creation and the creatures that God created to fill the sea. With its vastness and the innumerable life-forms that fill it, the sea is a tremendous exam…

Genesis 2:7 highlights both the custom-tailored way God created man and the special way God animated man. In this devotion, we take a closer look at God’s animating of dust to create mankind.

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Psalm 104:24 serves as a transition verse between Day 4 and Day 5 of creation. It allows us to pause and consider something the scholars of the world generally keep people from thinking about—how the…

Genesis 2:7 highlights both the custom-tailored way God created man and the special way God animated man. In this devotion, we take a closer look at God’s custom creating.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “W…

In this episode we consider and thank God for the beauty and benefits of the orderly progression of time.

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

In this episode we look at how Moses contrasts the way the earth was watered in the beginning with how it is watered now.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” a…

In this episode we consider how the psalmist frames the darkness as the workday of the wild animals.

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

Genesis 2:4 begins the first of the ten “accounts” that make up the book of Genesis. That means that Genesis 1:1—2:3 was only an introduction to the main body of Moses’s work. Now we are getting into…

When was the last time you took notice of the moon? In this episode, the psalmist leads us to consider the blessings God has given us especially in the two great lights of the sky.

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This is the second in a series of two episodes containing concluding thoughts on the first week of history. In this episode, we think about the fundamental assumptions of Christianity and science, an…

Psalm 104 follows the creation account in Genesis 1. Yet in verses 16–18, which cover Day 3 of creation, the psalmist already mentions the living creatures created on Days 5 & 6. Pastor Biebert explo…

This is the first in a series of two episodes containing concluding thoughts on the first week of history.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu,…