LIFE SCRIPTS

Our life's patterns transformed by God's grand story

Category: The Starting Point

Reflections on the book of Genesis

  • …AND THE WATER RECEDED…

    When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.…


  • THE AFTERMATH…

    After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried…


  • GOD’S REMEMBRANCE

    But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters…


  • NEW SLATE

    Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. Everything on dry land that had the breath…


  • FORTY DAYS…

    For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on…


  • THE SPRINGS, THE GREAT DEEP, THE FLOODGATES…

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates…


  • AND IT HAPPENED…

    Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape…


  • NOAH OBEYED

    And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. Genesis 7:5 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/gen.7.5.NIV Verse 5 is not a passage that has been mentioned in isolation. In verses before, scripture describes…


  • THE ANIMALS WENT IN TWO BY TWO…

    Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,…


  • AN ISLAND OF FAVOUR

    The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Genesis 7:1 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/gen.7.1.NIV God spoke…


  • TWO BY TWO…

    You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind…


  • NOAH’S ARK

    So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark…


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