Today’s Word
A Theology of the Blues
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Psalm 96:1 NASB New song– For a long time I’ve known that the Blues reach into my soul. I find myself among those sad refrains, those struggling lyrics. Give me Clapton, B.B., Stevie Ray, Ronnie Earl, Aretha, Robert Cray, and Kenny Wayne any day. Oh,…
Ghiara 2
The last Italy study tour. We will visit this church in Reggio Emilia.
Political Correction
And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.” Mark 11:17 NASB Robbers’ – Rome did not crucify men for theft. That means that the two men on either side of Yeshua on the cross were not…
Forced Redemption
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.Deuteronomy 4:20 NASB Brought you out– In a parallel passage, God’s act of redemption is described in Moses’ final speech with the Hebrew word qereb (Deut 4:34). In that description, Moses recalls the astounding redemptive act as…
Dwight Pryor on Sinful Nature
nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified. …
The Other Commandment
but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled, Titus 1:8 NASB Hospitable– Can you express the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself in oneword? Paul can. That word is philoxenos. OK, it’s really two Greek words combined into one, but if you look carefully you can see why Paul fuses these together. The first…
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