Day 1

I wanted to start out this day of study with why.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.

Why audio? We are called to teach the word. To talk of it. Over my years of teaching I've learned that it is in speaking and listening that I understand. It isn't just in passively taking something in ... but participating. So let us take the time in our lives to listen to God's word.

As You Rise ... Genesis 1-10

"Who created God?" "What was before God?" Those are two questions that kids tend to ask. Strangely those two questions are based on time. To create needs a start ... that is time. Before ... that is time as well. But God created time itself. There is no "before" with Him. He Was and He Is. That is all.

As You Walk By The Way ... Genesis 11-19

As I listened to Abram's story I thought ... "Why couldn't God pick someone not so messed up!? To give his wife away to keep himself safe?" But, then I realized that there are no better people. We are all flawed. A fake story would create a better "hero". The Bible shows us the truth, as painfully honest as it is.

When You Lie Down ... Matthew 1-6

From the flawed Abraham ... to the harlot Rahab ... to the flawed man David. All the way down to a carpenter, Joseph. Our salvation couldn't come from our own flawed flesh. It could only come from the perfect Son of God. For Christ came to fulfill the law of God, to die upon the cross, to take our sins upon Himself.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matt 6:34