Purposeful Passion

And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?  Mark 9:12 NASB Suffer – When did Yeshua ask this question?  The context is critical.  He asks this question as…

Jumper

What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  May it never be!  Romans 6:15  NASB What then? – “Questions of faith are not philosophical, sociological or psychological; they are intensely personal.  Everyone has to find his or her own way of dealing with them.  The point at which a…

Skip’s Lectures in South Africa, Feb-Mar 2013

If you would like to participate, please contact Luzette (see bottom of the page)   22 FEB  Friday           BLOEMFONTEIN        RUTH 1 23 FEB  Saturday    BLOEMFONTEIN          RUTH 2   25 FEB  Monday     KROONSTAD     1.  Hebrew view of HISTORY/ PROPHESY  2. GETTING MARRIED: ONE DAY AT A TIME- follow-up   26 FEB  Tues         BETHLEHEM    GETTING MARRIED: ONE DAY AT A TIME   27FEB   Wed         VANDERBIJL       GREEK/HEBREW BIBLICA WORLD…

Doxology

“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.”  John 17:22  ESV Glory – Certainly every Christian believer is familiar with this Greek word – doxa.  In days past, it was incorporated into a ritual of Sunday worship.  We sang the doxology. …

Torah – and all that stuff

Today I got an email from a long-time reader.  It said: Skip, I have been reading your posts regularly for many years now. I am unclear of the bottom line: Are we to be Torah bound as if Jews? If so how do we apply the 600+ Laws/Kingdom rules in our current society? If selectively,…

The Un-Beatitude

“Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”  Matthew 25:34  NASB Blessed – If you turn to the Beatitudes in Matthew 5, you will find that each one begins with the Greek word makarioi.  This word should not be translated “blessed are” since…

Just in Case You Didn’t Know

When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.  Exodus 21:22  ESV Children – Just in case there was…

The Evangelical Mantra

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  John 3:3  NASB Born again – By now most of us realize that the translation “born again” is neither proper Greek nor reasonable Hebrew.  A good English Bible will at least…