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  • Genesis 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.…

  • Built to Last

    After I got married, I worked briefly at company that sold custom wood ceilings. I remember one time there were two orders for similar looking products. One was a walnut ceiling, and the other was a poplar ceiling stained to look like walnut.  The first client was an Ivy League school. I think it was…

  • 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…

  • Evil-ish 

    In fiction, the villain is often self-aware, and when cornered, will be quite forthcoming in their diabolical plot as they laugh at the suffering of others. In real life, more often than not, no one sees themselves as the bad guy either before, during or even after they get caught.  On the small scale you start…

  • 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…

  • Genesis 6: We Built a Zoo

    Chapter 6 begins with a curious account of the sons of God having children with the daughters of Earth. There are two main interpretations the “sons of God,” either they are followers of God having children with non-believers, or some sort of angels that came down and had offspring with humans. The results of these…

  • Genesis 4: Three Brothers

    Adam and Eve have a son and Eve names the boy Cain meaning “gotten a man with the Lord’s help.” She sees this child as a gift from God, as many parents do. They have a second son, Abel, meaning breath.  Abel keeps sheep and Cain works the ground. After a while, Cain brings an…

  • Genesis 2:21 Woman

    The Lord caused the man to fall asleep and took his rib and made a woman. The man said “at last, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” He called her woman meaning taken from man. Adam saw himself in Eve.  The text says, “therefore a man shall leave his parents and join…

  • Salutations 

    Last night, I watched a movie adaptation of Charlotte‘s Web with Ivy. There’s a bunch of children’s shows that I never saw because they came after I was a grown-up, but before I had kids. I have recently purchased a paperback copy of Charlotte‘s Web for Ivy who is a new reader, so of course…

  • 2 Corinthians 13: Extreme Church Makeover 

    In this section, Paul repeats his warning for a third time. He says if he comes again he will not spare them. The Corinthians keep questioning Paul, but he says they must examine themselves. If they want to see Christ speaking in him, they must prepare for his strength because even though Jesus was crucified…