Quite often I receive emails asking for interpretation of biblical passages. I am honored that you would consider asking me for my views. This leads me to clarify what At God’s Table and Today’s Word is really attempting to accomplish. My work is an evolution in understanding. What I knew yesterday is only a platform…
All Your works shall give thanks to You, O LORD, and Your godly ones shall bless You. Psalm 145:10 NASB All – How big is the universe? If you want to have some appreciation for the size of our environment, take a look at this. Then reflect on your significance in the vast expanse of…
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away. Psalm 90:10 NASB Pride – “For if there is no meaning inherent in the world, on what basis can we determine the value…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Makes you free – Are you free? The answer depends entirely on your worldview. The meaning of the term “free” is a function of the culture you belong to. And the difference between the Greek/Western view of freedom and the…
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5 NASB Redeem – “It is not enough to have met a word in…
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Hebrews 9:26 ESV The end of the ages – If you read this verse by…
as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.” Romans 9:33 NASB As it is written – But the problem, of course, is that this is not what is written. How can Paul tell us that…
I recently gave a lecture in South Africa about the “law vs. grace” issue, explaining how the definitions of the terms need to be understood in the culture of the first century. This is a THREE PART VIDEO of about 2 hours total. You will learn that the real issue is not law versus grace…
For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. Galatians 5:6 NASB Circumcision – Given the choice, most men remember Shechem (Genesis 34). The very idea of adult circumcision causes pain. So they run to this verse, and others like it, claiming that it really doesn’t make any difference. …
