"God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one."James 1:13If sin comes from within, we eventually face a difficult question.Adam and Eve were created good. They did not possess fallen ...  Read More

"There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him."Mark 7:15When something ugly comes out of us, we usually know wh...  Read More

"The LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them."Genesis 3:21Adam and Eve's first attempt to deal with sin was sincere, creative, and completely useless.They sewed fig ...  Read More

"Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men..."Romans 5:12Why should the decision of one man in a garden thousands of years ago h...  Read More

"But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, 'Where are you?'"Genesis 3:9The first thing Adam and Eve did after they sinned was sew.They stitched fig leaves together because they could no long...  Read More

"Did God actually say...?"Genesis 3:1Most sin does not begin with a raised fist.It begins with a question."Did God actually say?"The serpent does not begin by demanding that Eve renounce God. He sound...  Read More

"And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.'" Genesis 1:28The image of God is not only something we have.It is something we were meant to d...  Read More

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27There are people we disagree with.There are people we find difficult.And then th...  Read More

"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.'"Genesis 1:26Think about the last person who made you sigh.You probably did not have to think very long.Maybe it was the coworker who...  Read More

“Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.”—Exodus 32:26Leadership is about disappointing people at the right time and for the right reasons.That is not how most of us naturally think about leadership or...  Read More

“Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”—Exodus 32:5Aaron’s failure did not end when he made the golden calf.That was only the beginning.After fashioning the idol, Aaron built an altar in front of it ...  Read More

“Up, make us gods who shall go before us.” —Exodus 32:1What happens when what someone wants will destroy them?What happens when a person’s pain begins pointing that person toward sin?And what happens ...  Read More