Tag: genesis
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Day 028: There I Will Make You a Great Nation (Genesis 46:1-3)
Genesis 46 marks a turning point in God’s promise to Abraham’s family. For the first time, God reveals not just what He will do, but where—forming His people into a great nation not in the promised land, but in exile. Long before Israel ever arrives home, God teaches them how to live faithfully in the…
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Day 021: Divine Providence and Family Dysfunction (Genesis 27:5-10)
Genesis 27–29 reads like a case study in family dysfunction—favoritism, deceit, betrayal, and rivalry. Yet through this broken family, God still keeps His promises.
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Day 016: Abram the Crosser-Over
The first time Abram is called “the Hebrew,” the Bible isn’t naming his ethnicity so much as his story. He is the crosser-over—the man who passed out of death and into promise. And in Genesis 15, we discover that the God who calls us to cross is also the God who crosses for us.
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Day 003: Sin Exposed, Shame Covered (Genesis 9:20-25)
Sin exposes us. Shame follows close behind. But from Eden to Noah, and from Noah to the cross, Scripture tells a better story—one where God does not deny sin, but refuses to let shame have the final word.
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Day 003: Is God Threatened by Human Progress? (Genesis 11:6-7)
The Tower of Babel shows us that God is never threatened by human achievement. The real danger is unity apart from Him. At Pentecost, God reversed Babel’s curse, uniting scattered people around the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Day 002: Two Songs, Two Math Problems (Genesis 4:23-24)
In Genesis, Lamech sings vengeance by the numbers. In the Gospels, Jesus answers with forgiveness that outnumbers it. What changed wasn’t the math—it was the song.