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  • Genesis 17: Covenant 

    When Abram was 99, God spoke to him and repeated his promise to bless Abram with children. Abram fell on his face. God gave him a new name, Abraham, meaning father of multitudes. God says he needs to live blameless in order to receive the blessing. God says kings will come from him and promises…

  • Write Now

    Last summer, while working from home and seeing to the news, and hearing people say, “Jesus says this,” and “Jesus says that” I felt gaslit. Because the Jesus I grew up learning about in Sunday School, was not matching the Jesus that people were presenting. I go to church every single Sunday and I am…

  • Genesis 16: Seen

    After living in Canaan for ten years, Abram and Sarai still do not have a child. Sarai plans to make her Egyptian servant Hagar sleep with her husband in order to obtain one. Abram agrees and Hagar gets pregnant. It’s almost the perfect solution.  Hagar looks at Sarai with contempt and Sarai complains to Abram.…

  • Genesis 15: Dreams & Visions

    Abram has a vision of God saying, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”  Instead of just accepting this, Abram questions God about his childlessness. He doesn’t understand how the promise of having countless descendants can be fulfilled without even having one kid. What gives? Now that his nephew Lot…

  • Genesis 14: Spoils of War

    In the Valley of the Salt Sea, for twelve years, the people in the region had been under the rule of the king of Elam, but on the thirteenth some rebelled.  In the fourteenth year, the king of Elam teamed up with other three kings of cities to fight five rebellious cities including Sodom and…

  • Genesis 11: Babel and Beyond

    After the flood, all the people settled in one area called the Plain of Shinar. They baked bricks for stone and used bitumen, a viscous form of natural petroleum, for mortar. They said to themselves, let’s build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and make a name for ourselves, lest…

  • Chapter 10: Nations

    This chapter goes through the genealogies of the three sons of Noah. There are a 70 names listed, and several of them are the names of tribes and nations that later pop up in the Bible times and still today.  Japheth has seven sons listed and of those sons, seven significant grandsons are also listed.…

  • Genesis 9: The Aftermath

    After the flood, God blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth. Even though Noah’s wife and his sons’ wives are not mentioned explicitly, we are assuming that they are also participants in this blessing, since it takes two to multiply. God told the survivors that…

  • Genesis 8:  Earth 2.0 

    In the eighth chapter of Genesis, it says that God remembered Noah and his family and the rain stopped. A wind blew and the waters subsided. In the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark settled in the mountains of Ararat. That is modernly Turkey’s northeastern border with Iran* and Armenia.  After waiting 40…

  • Genesis 7: The Flood

    God told Noah to take his family of eight including his wife, 3 sons and 3 daughters-in-law and himself, along with 7 pairs of each clean animal and two pairs of each unclean animal into the boat. Clean animals are later shown to be the as ones used for sacrifice. God says in seven days…