Ephesians 5:22-33 (HCSB)22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for ...  Read More

Matthew 19:3-6 (HCSB)3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer t...  Read More

Genesis 2:18-24 (HCSB)18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, ...  Read More

Tis the Season to be Jolly… Fa la la la la! Did you know that this is not just a bunch of silly words but in Renaissance England, they were used to advance a song’s satirical critique of society or as a lyrical surrogate for something that couldn’t be expressed explicitly? At least that is what “the Google” says. This is totally different than… Ooh la la …which is a French phrase to express a stro...  Read More

Genesis 1:26-28 (HCSB)26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them ...  Read More

Let it RainStudy The Word: Put life lessons from Noah into action.Key Truth: Righteous Noah was called to build an ark (Genesis 6:9-22).Key Truth: Noah, his family, and the animals were safe in the ark when the flood came (Genesis 7:1-8:19).Key Truth: Noah worshiped God and received promises and instructions (Genesis 8:20-9:17).Family Connection: Continue the discussion after church!How was Noah d...  Read More

1.  In some ways, chapter 5 is like hitting fast-forward in the Genesis story. How does mankind get from being made in the “image of God” to thinking “nothing but evil all the time” (Gen. 6:5)? God is all-knowing, so this doesn’t catch Him off-guard. Yet, the “LORD regretted” making mankind. How does this reveal sin never stays hidden, never stays small, and always hurts others?2.  While mankind w...  Read More

Genesis 9 (HCSB)God’s Covenant with Noah9 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear and terror of you will be in every living creature on the earth, every bird of the sky, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are placed under your authority. 3 Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave ...  Read More

Genesis 8 (HCSB)The Flood Recedes8 God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside. 2 The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped. 3 The water steadily receded from the earth, and by the end of 150 days the ...  Read More

Genesis 7 (HCSB)Entering the Ark7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female, 3 and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in o...  Read More

Genesis 6:9-22 (HCSB)God Warns Noah9 These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. 13 Th...  Read More

Genesis 6:1-8 (HCSB)Sons of God and Daughters of Men6 When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves. 3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever,because they are corrupt. Their days will be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were o...  Read More