Hello. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Don, and I am one of the deacons here at RP, and my family and I have been coming here for about 8, almost 9 years now. I was asked to speak tonight on the topic of thanksgiving, and the passage that first came to...
Genesis 11:1–9 (NIV84) 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,...
Genesis 9:25–27 (NIV84) 25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” 26He also said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. 27May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of...
Genesis 11:1–9 (NIV84) 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,...
Genesis 11:1–9 (NIV84) 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,...
Genesis 9:18–24 (NIV84) 18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. 20Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to...
Amillennial Perspective (Michael Horton) In July 2020 (during the pandemic, before ChatGPT), a caller called into a podcast featuring Michael Horton (Reformed author) and asked, "How Do You Feel About Artificial Intelligence Being the Image of the Beast in Revelation...
Rethinking Diaspora through Romans 9–11 Co Nghiep Ho, Redemption Point ChurchPaper presented at the First Vietnamese Diaspora Theological Conference (read this in Vietnamese, or download the PDF)Midway City, California, November 8, 2025 Abstract The Jubilee 50th...
Genesis 9:13–17 (NIV84) 13I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15I will remember my covenant between me and you and all...
Genesis 9:5–6 (NIV84) 5And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man. 6“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his...
Genesis 9:1–7 (NIV84) 1Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along...
Hebrews 13:15–16 (NIV84) 15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. The Old Testament...
Genesis 8:20–22 (NIV84) 20Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of...
Genesis 6:22 (NIV84) 22Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Hebrews 11:7 (NIV84) 7By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness...
Genesis 7:1–5 (NIV84) 1The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a...
Genesis 6:8–9 (NIV84) 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. Romans 3:10–12 (NIV84) 10As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even...
Genesis 6:6-8, 11-13; 7:17-23 (NIV84) 6The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along...
Genesis 6:1–7 (NIV84) 1When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with man...