For a spirit of harlotry is within them, and they do not know the LORD Hosea 5:4 Harlotry – Hosea was a man none of us would aspire to be. He encountered the dangerous God. He obeyed the dangerous God. As a result, he spent his life in ridicule as the cuckolded husband of a…
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 Takes Away – How did Jesus “take away” your Sin? That’s Sin with a capital “S”. We’re not talking about all those individual misdeeds and rebellious acts and injuries. We’re talking about the big S, the guilt that you bear…
It is by the kindness of Jehovah that we are not destroyed for His mercies never fail. Lamentations 3:22 Mercy – Gender sensitivity did not begin in the Twentieth Century. It began when God created us male and female. The Bible is very specific about this connection. Genesis 1:26 tells us that God said, “Let’s…
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God 2 Corinthians 4:2 Hidden – Why does the mythology of Superman endure? From time immemorial, men and women have all wanted to be super people. Invulnerable. Powerful. Rescuers of others. What makes the Superman myth so…
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God 2 Corinthians 4:2 Shame – Why are the things of shame hidden? Why not say, “the obviously shameful things”? The answer may lie in the difference between my inner self and my outer observation of others….
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God 2 Corinthians 4:2 Renounce – Jesus is the man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. According to the Isaiah prophecy, He was rejected by men. John confirms the fact. He came to His own and they spurned…
although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered Hebrews 5:8 Suffered – Have you ever considered just how strange this verse is? Jesus, the perfect Son, the fully dependent man, the sinless example for us all, still had to learn obedience through suffering. Why? If Jesus is the God-Man,…
And immediately coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opening Mark 1:10 Immediately – Waiting for Godot, the famous play by Samuel Beckett, presents a visual reflection on the world’s view of God. We wait, and wait, and wait, but God never quite arrives. In the end, we are simply left waiting…
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you; for the LORD is a God of justice; Isaiah 30:18 Longs – The Old Testament is a great love story. Of course, it also shows us that God is not just a forgiving machine. Sin…
When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7 Makes . . Peace – God has an answer to terrorism. It’s not the one the world employs. Our solution is political; a mix of failed negotiation and fruitless power. God’s solution is…
