God Running

Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven — Matthew 6:20

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. Matthew 6:20 Self discipline with your time: (continued from October 6, 2010 post) “In most cases,… Read More

2 Timothy 1:7 — Discipline — For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 David Smith, a friend of mine, asked me today, “What’s the value of discipline as it… Read More

God First

Genesis 3:14-19 — Because you have done this…

Sin isn’t bad because it’s forbidden. Sin is forbidden because it’s bad.

Because God loves us He has identified for us what sin is and He forbids us to engage in it. God forbids it because sin destroys.

Don’t Go Rafting Without a Baptist in the Boat

This is just too funny not to share. In case you’ve never heard her before, when she says “Left Brain” she’s referring to her husband. Check it out.

Genesis 2:18 — It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.”… Read More

Genesis 2:10-15 — God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that… Read More

Genesis 2:7 — God formed man from the dust

-the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 Today scientists know that, in fact, all of the… Read More

How Does Jesus View the Old Testament? Genesis 2:4-7

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the… Read More

Genesis 2:1-3 — The Seventh Day — Rest

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God… Read More

Genesis 1:28-31 — God’s an Environmentalist

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that… Read More

In God’s Image: Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all… Read More

Genesis 1:23-25 — Living creatures the sixth day

And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to… Read More