Luke 18:1 “Then Jesus told His disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Observation: Jesus had in the previous chapter stirred an expectation that the end of the age would come suddenly. In Noah’s day the routines of life were...

Genesis 3:24 “After He drove the man out…” Observation: Adam had sinned. The uncreated God had created the most idyllic place on the planet to express the fullness of His love for this created being. God’s great passion had been for relationship with Adam, yet by his...

Job 42:10a “After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again…” Observation: Job had finally come to the end of himself. Admitting that he had spoken “of things (he) did not understand, things too wonderful for (him) to know,” (v. 3) he...

Luke 22:61: “The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter.” Observation: Jesus had been arrested by a combination of Roman soldiers and Jewish Sanhedrin. From the place of arrest, He was taken to Caiaphas’ home, the ruling high priest, where the Jewish phase of His...

Genesis 3:24 “After He drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” Observation: Everyone in the story sinned: Adam, Eve and the serpent. Each came under...

Genesis 3:6 “She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Observation: Genesis 3 is the awful story of man’s fall, a tale of blame, of unresisted yielding to rebellion, and of subsequent shame and punishment. The chapter begins with an abrupt...

Genesis 2:18 “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’ ” Observation: God had put Adam into the garden made expressly for their shared intimacy. (Gen. 2:8) He had set the boundaries (v. 15–17) and then made the...

Genesis 2:8 “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man he had formed.” Observation: Genesis 2 begins to give more detail of God’s provision for Adam. Genesis 1:27 says that I was created in His image, then this business about...

Genesis 2:2 “…on the seventh day He rested from all His work.” (NIV) Observation: God’s first workweek was finished. Creation was complete, so now He rested. Genesis 2:3 tells me more…that it was because He rested that the seventh day was blessed and made holy....

Genesis 1:3 “And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.” Observation: It was the first day of creation. A moment before, earth had been “formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep…” (Gen. 1:2) But in an instant God spoke light into...