Duncan Parlett

This series by Duncan Parlett, a staff person with CRU in the States, first appeared in a longer format as a devotional series entitled From Genesis to Revelation on Cru.org. Feel free to consult this original series for additional reading suggestions and content.

• Day Seventeen: I Tricked My Wife

  I was once a slim, handsome young man with lots of dark, wavy hair and a killer mustache. A young woman fell in love with me and foolishly made solemn wedding vows to me. Ever since, I have gradually transformed myself into a hideous old man.

• Day Sixteen: “Freedom Is a Terrible Thing”

  My dad liked to provoke people by saying things like “Freedom is a terrible thing.” Isn’t freedom good and what everyone wants? Not necessarily. God’s people found out that freedom, divorced from morality, ushers in a world of hurt. 

• Day Fifteen: An Occupy Movement

  A rich land stretches between the Jordan River, the Mediterranean Sea, and the deserts of Egypt. God promised to give this area to Abraham and his descendants. After God rescued his people from slavery in Egypt, he led them to occupy it.