Faith and Reality

 - A 52-Week Journey toward Knowing Him Simon Yuan Week 1 – In the Beginning: Jesus the Creator  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — Genesis 1:1 (ESV) STUDY — Jesus the Creator The Bible begins with the most profound statements ever written: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” With these opening words, Scripture introduces us to the central truth of the universe: God is the Creator of everything that has a beginning and exists. Before the heavens and the earth came into being, God already was. Traditionally, Moses has been recognized as the author of the first five books of the Bible, including Genesis. In Genesis 1, he presents a creation account fundamentally different from the creation stories found in other ancient cultures. Rather than describing a world emerging from conflict among competing gods or from an eternal cosmic substance, Genesis declares that one sovereign God created everything. Moses did not present creation as ...

- A 52-Week Journey Toward Knowing Him Study • Memorize • Meditate • Live Simon Yuan Introduction Is This Book Volume Two—or a New Journey? After publishing my first book, Popular Bible Verses for Every Week of the Year: A Weekly Scripture Devotional , I began to consider a question: Should my next book be Volume Two of the first, or should it be a new book with a different purpose? Yes, in some ways, this book could be considered a second volume. Like my first book, it focuses on Bible verses, follows a 52-week devotional format, and encourages readers to engage directly with Scripture through the SMM method: Study, Memorize, and Meditate. There is certainly room for a second volume of Popular Bible Verses for Every Week of the Year . Many well-known and beloved Bible verses did not make it into the first book simply because there was space for only 52 weekly devotionals. Selecting another 52 popular verses and applying the same SMM approach would be a worthwhile writing project. Howe...