David’s Twelve-Step Group

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will be converted to You. Psalm 51:13 NASB I will teach – Are you saved? Have you been restored to relationship with the Most High? Then you are obligated! Your rescue did not come without a personal price tag. You didn’t pay for the action that…

Delivery Test

He opened his mouth and began to teach them, saying, Matthew 5:2 NASB To teach – “The test of a true sermon is that it can be converted into prayer.”[1] Are you a preacher? Do you lead a Bible study? Do you teach your children or grandchildren the texts of Scripture? Are you an elder…

Teach Your Children Well

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. . .   Matthew 28:20  ESV Teaching – No, we are not going to investigate the obvious connection between this commandment and Torah.  It’s so obvious we just won’t even mention it.  What we want to ask ourselves is this:  “What does it mean to teach?” …

Oswald Revisited

Go, ye therefore, and teach (disciple) all nations,  . . .”  Matthew 28:19 cited in Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest Teach (disciple) – My Utmost For His Highest is the most popular daily devotional in the world.  For good reason.  Oswald Chambers lived a life of righteous devotion to his Savior and his…

Degree Mill

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”  John 14:26  NASB Teach – In academic circles, a “degree mill” is a company that offers you pieces of paper that claim you have…

A Word from the Lord

And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for any one to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.  1 John…

Idolatry by Osmosis

but they mingled with the nations and learned their practices, Psalm 106:35  NASB Learned – David described Israel in the 10th Century BC.  He might as well have penned this line 3000 years later.  Haven’t we mingled with the nations and learned their practices?  Aren’t we in the same place as Israel before Babylon? What…

Grammar Lesson

You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. Deuteronomy 6:7 Teach – God commands parents to teach His instructions to their children.  Let’s say that again.  God…

Archery

Teach me Your way, O YHWH, and lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. Psalm 27:11 Teach – Did you ever take a class in archery at summer camp? It isn’t as easy as it looks, is it? You have to learn about holding the bow and the arrow correctly. If you…

Context, Context, Context

Let a woman learn in silence, in all subjection.  But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.  1 Timothy 2:11-12 A Woman – The universal law of real estate is simple:  location, location, location.  There is a comparable universal law in biblical…