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January 5 - Nº 5 Genesis 4:1-12 Adam and Eve had two sons,  and they each had different interests. Cain, the older brother, loved gardening while Abel the younger one, loved animals. When it was time for them to make offerings to God, Cain brought some of his crops and Abel brought some of the first-born animals from his flocks. For some reason,  God was pleased with Abel’s sacrifice, but not with Cain’s.  Why? What did Cain do wrong?   Did it have something to do with the  T

January 4 - Nº 4 Genesis 3:14-24 When God created beauty and order out of darkness and chaos (see  #1 – January 1 ), He challenged Satan’s authority and set the stage for the greatest drama ever to play out in history. His intervention on the planet demanded an answer to the question:  Who has the right to rule on this planet—is it Satan or is it God?    Ever since, Satan has brought his best acting skills to the stage hoping to prove that  he  has the power and the right to

January 3 - Nº 3 Genesis 3:1-13, 21 Satan was not happy that God had renovated the dilapidated world he called home. He did not like that God had created a perfect Garden and assigned mirror images of Himself to be His representatives. So, disguised as a beautiful serpent, Satan snuck up to Eve and  lured her with his beauty and words.  He challenged God’s truthfulness and His love.  “God is not telling you the truth,” he ridiculed. “If you eat the fruit, you won’t die! God i

January 2 - Nº 2 Genesis 2:15-25 Genesis 2 re-tells the story of God’s creation in much more detail. This time the focus is on the man whom God formed out of the dust of the ground. God didn’t just speak him into existence (as He had done for the rest of His creation). He hand-crafted him and breathed into his lungs to give him life. Then God placed him in the middle of the extraordinary new world He had just created.  Adam was God’s “magnum opus ” —His ultimate masterpiece.

January 1 - Nº 1 Genesis 1:1-31; 2:1-3 The very first verse in the very first book of the Bible tells us that God created the heavens and the earth.  I’m sure you’ve heard this story many times before.  But have you noticed the second verse?  It throws us a curveball.  It says that the earth was formless; it was empty; it was dark! The Hebrew words ( tohu wabohu ) indicate that God encountered a seething, chaotic, disorderly mess.  But if God was the One doing the creating, w