TODAY’S SPECIAL: Genesis 40:1-23 TO CHEW ON: “But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.” (Genesis 40:14) - Maybe the teacher will forget about giving the test.- Maybe the new kid will turn out to be my friend. When we’re n...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 4: 1-12 Detail from "Cain and Abel Offering Their Sacrifices" by Gustave Doré TO CHEW ON: "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...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 16:1-9 Abram looking at the stars - Artist unknown TO CHEW ON: “'Your slave is in your hands,' Abram said. 'Do with her whatever you think best.'” Genesis 16:6 What promises had God given Abram? Genesis 12:2 Genesis 15:5 If Abram was to be a nation and have as many chi...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: Genesis 28:10-20 TO CHEW ON: “I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15 Have you ever run for your life? That’s what Jacob was doing. After he tricked...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 18:20-33 TO CHEW ON: "Abraham said, 'Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?'He said, 'For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.'Then he said, 'May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What i...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Genesis 7:24-8:12 Noah welcoming the bird back to the ark - Artist unknown TO CHEW ON: "But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded." (Genesis 8:1) Have you ever been...
TODAY’S SPECIAL: Genesis 39:7-23 TO CHEW ON: “But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.” (Genesis 39:20b,21) Have you ever been blamed for something you didn’t do? That’s what happened to Joseph. At...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 3: 1-9 TO CHEW ON: "Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden." (Genesis 3:8) Up till now Adam, Eve and God had been friends. When God w...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 6:14-22 This Noah's Ark mural was once in the children's entrance of my church. TO CHEW ON: "Noah did everything just as God commanded him." (Genesis 6:22) Imagine this: you and your family are the only people who love God on the whole earth! People talk about you. The...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read: Genesis 19:12-29 TO CHEW ON: "The two men said to Lot, 'Do you have anyone else here...? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.'” Genesis 19:12, 13 When the two ...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Genesis 11:1-9 TO CHEW ON: "Then they said, 'Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.'” Genesis 11:4 God was displeased with the peop...
TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Genesis 8:15-22 Noah and his family leave the ark - Artist unknown TO CHEW ON: "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." (Genesis 8:22) The flood was over. At last the animals and people could leave ...