Dear friends and family, For many years my wife Tara has struggled with some significant issues which have manifested in an increasing number of unhealthy, addictive, and self destructive behaviors and patterns throughout our 15 years of marriage. Her physical and mental health has finally reached the point where she recognizes her need for inpatient…
In labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23 Mere Talk – In Hebrew, nothing is real. Okay, that’s a bit confusing. What I mean is that the concept of “nothing” also has a certain reality. Nothing isn’t no-thing. It’s not the kind of empty, non-existent thing that we associate…
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And God said, “Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years. And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth. And it…
But He said this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do. John 6:6 Test – Let’s see. I’m not to test God. That’s an insult to His sovereignty. But God can test me. He did so with Abraham. Here Yeshua tests Philip. The Greek is peirazo, a verb that means…
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My word?” John 5:46-47 His Writings – What is the plain sense of Yeshua’s statement? If you believe what Moses wrote, you would believe what I am saying, but…
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 Power – God gives me dunamis. And what does “power” mean to me? It means ability, capacity, vigor, strength and will. The basis of our words “dynamite” and “dynamic” come from this Greek root. Explosive…
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! Romans 6:1-2 Continue – “I’m saved. I’ll go to heaven when I die. Jesus’ death guarantees it. Why should I worry about all those Old Testament rules. I’m under grace. Rules don’t save me, God does.”…
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1 Justified By Faith – It’s extremely unfortunate that Cardinal Hugo and Joseph Athias divided the Bible up into chapters (introduced about 1240 AD) and Arabic numeral verses (introduced in 1661). While such conventions became necessary for technological…
