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Photo by Al Butler on Unsplash Read: Gen. 3:20-24 I am sure that I am not the only one who loved the Indiana Jones movies. Apparently, we are all about the movie references these past few weeks. Anyway, where it might have sparked the imagination of millions to find the “Lost Ark,” I was always (and still am) more fascinated by the idea of the lost Garden of Eden. I remember, as a child

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash Genesis 3:8-24 Read or Listen to Genesis 3 Adam and Eve's failure in the garden truly did happen in history; living in perfect peace, the first two people failed to value and trust God. But not only did it happen then, it still happens now. Like Eve, we're sometimes deceived and reject God's explicit instruction. And like Adam, without deception, we rebel against God. (2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14)

Photo by Liane Metzler on Unsplash It is a joyous dream turned nightmare.  It is a story that, as Christians, we have heard one hundred times and wish we had never heard once.  It is the fall. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”  The woman said to the