Author: Norm

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through…

There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Genesis 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a…

There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Genesis 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood. [Genesis 10:32] Just like God originally intended, the people are spreading out. God blessed them…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. [Genesis 8:11] The dove, just a bird, yet for Noah this bird came to represent something more. The dove…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my reflection from 2008) When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image;…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my Genesis 4 reflection from 2008) Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but…

SCRIPTURE: Genesis 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: (Read my Genesis 3 reflection from 2008) “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” [Genesis 3:4-5] Your eyes will be opened… well I guess that is true,…