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When things start to fall apart, get back to the basics! The Book of Genesis is the “book of beginnings” in the Bible, and the first eleven chapters present the “basics.” These chapters are to life what a foundation is to a house or what the Constitution is to the law of the land. If you want to build a life that succeeds, to face and solve life’s problems, to serve effectively, you start with...

labor. Martin Luther told the dairymaids that they could milk cows to the glory of God, and Theodore Roosevelt said that “the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Perhaps the boys asked their father why their work was so difficult, and Adam had to explain that God had cursed the ground because of his own disobedience. “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread” was God’s sentence (Gen. 3:17–19, NKJV), and there was no escape. But this question gave Adam
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