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August 2: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. –Genesis 3:7 Satan comes and suggests that God will keep you down if you obey him. You’ll never be all that you can be unless you get a little carpe diem [...]

July 26: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. –Genesis 2:23-24 This song [...]

July 19: The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. –Genesis 2:7   That’s what Ephesians 2 tells us: “as for you, you were dead…” I was not sinking deep in sin far from the peaceful shore. [...]

July 12: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. –Genesis 1:27 He [Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether [...]

July 5: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

 “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” –Genesis 1:31 Creation is commended for its goodness, but it didn’t do one thing to make itself good. In other words God commends himself on his perfect work in creating the world and being faithful to complete it until he says [...]