Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer

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

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Have you ever seen a California redwood or a giant oak or cypress tree? It’s an impressive sight. And they are an impressive testimony to God’s provision.

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Did you ever notice what is missing in Genesis 2:3? There is no “There was evening, and there was morning.” That’s because, in a way, this seventh day was meant to have no end.

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God doesn’t give us food products just to nourish us and keep us going until we die. In this episode, Pastor Biebert discuss the three different uses of food products covered by this psalm. If you're…

In this episode, Pastor Biebert begins to discuss what it means that God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.

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Who brings forth bread from the earth? We do, and God does. In this devotion, Pastor Biebert leads you in meditating on these juxtaposed truths.

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“On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” What does that mean? In the last Genesis episode, we considered what it doesn’t and can’t mean. In this episode, we consider what it does mean.

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From 104:10–12, the psalmist talked about God’s watering of the valleys with springs, and how those springs quench the thirst of the animals living in the valleys. But what about areas of higher elev…

“On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” What does that mean? In this episode, we first consider what it doesn’t and can’t mean. In next week’s Genesis devotion, we’ll consider what it does…

The birds have it so good, they sing every day. How good, then, do we have it, since God’s own Son gave his life for us, and not for the birds? In this episode, Pastor Biebert discusses the care God …

In the Old Testament, God is regularly called “the LORD of hosts” or “the LORD of armies.” Just who or what makes up these armies? Moses answers that question in Genesis 2:1.

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In Psalm 104:10–11, David begins talking about God’s creative activity on Day 3, and how it still benefits both man and beast today.

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The Germans have a proverb: Das Werk lobt den Meister. “The work proves (or praises) the craftsman.” That means that when Moses tells us that God surveyed his finished creation and saw that it was “v…

Sometimes people with good intentions, who want us to be better stewards of the earth, unnecessarily and mistakenly turn into alarmists, warning us that the oceans will rise and cover all or most of …

For those wishing to take God’s word seriously, Genesis 1:29–30 perhaps provides us with the greatest challenges. In this episode, Pastor Biebert discusses those challenges and why God left those dif…

Last week we considered the power and immediate effect of God’s word. Today we consider the beauty it brings into being, as evidenced by its work on Day 3 of creation, which Psalm 104 describes in po…

If God had not blessed humans with the ability to reproduce on Day 6, neither you nor I would be here today. But because he did, you and can say that we have been created by God every bit as much as …

There are few passages that portray the power of God’s word more beautifully, vividly, and dramatically than Psalm 104:5–7.

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Are the differences between men and women simply a social construct? Or are they simply fodder for jokes and ridicule? In this episode we look at God’s beautiful creation of humans as male and female…

No matter how firm a foundation we lay for any project or undertaking, what we build on that foundation will only last so long and will eventually be destroyed. The firmest foundations are always and…