The Beginning of us All – Falling

In the third chapter of Genesis, a tempter came which the Bible later teaches us was Satan.  Satan spoke to the woman and made her think that God was depriving them of something desirable.   3:1 “Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the...

The Beginning of us all – A Real Choice

8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the...

Learning to Rest

By Ruth Burke The last two weeks did not go as planned. I was sick for an entire week. It started as a bad sore throat and got steadily worse. I’d love to say that when I realized how sick I was I took great care of myself. Unfortunately the opposite is true. I...

The Beginning of Us All – Teamwork

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.” How many of us know the names of the US teams who won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics?  I googled “US Olympic teams 2016” and found a Wikipedia entry...

The Beginning of us all – Blessed Work

28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.” 29 God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the...