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True Intimacy
Daily ReflectionIn polite speech, we sometimes speak of people "being intimate" rather than using the blunt phrase "having sex."...
Shrewd Temptation
Daily ReflectionTemptation rarely comes in obvious, in-your-face ways. We're rarely tempted to do that which we know to be horribly...
Shame: The First Sting of Sin
Daily ReflectionAs soon as the man and woman sin by doing that which God has prohibited, they feel shame. The Hebrew literally reads:...
Hiding From God
Daily ReflectionAfter the man and woman sin, their first instinct is to hide. They hide from each other and even from themselves (Gen...
The First Glimmer of Mercy
Daily ReflectionI remember playing hide and seek with my children when they were very young. Their hiding places were ineffective, to...
Making Excuses
Daily ReflectionHere we see the first excuse. The man has been caught red-handed, having eaten the forbidden fruit. He does not try to...
Hint of the Savior
Daily ReflectionThroughout the ages, Christian commentators have seen in Genesis 3:15 the first hint of the Savior. There will be...
God’s Mercy Once Again
Daily ReflectionEarlier in Genesis 3 we have seen a glimmer of God's mercy in his calling out to the man as he hid. Now God's mercy...
Paradise Lost
Daily ReflectionThe Garden of Eden was the original paradise, the place where God's perfect intentions for the world were fully...
Brokenness in Families
Daily ReflectionIn Genesis 3, we saw that one of the first results of sin was brokenness in the relationship between the man and the...
In the Image of the Father
Daily ReflectionSeth was born in the image of his father, Adam ("image" in Hebrew = demut; used also in Gen. 1:26). This statement in...
Walking With God
Daily ReflectionGenesis 6 reveals the sorry state of humanity because of sin's pernicious influence. Human beings not only did evil, but...