The Gospel for the Gentiles (2)

 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Romans 1:21  ESV Did not honor – Paul delineates two critical failures of those whom God consigns to futility.  The first is that even though…

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. …

A Woman’s Doxology

For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.  1 Corinthians 11:7  NASB Glory – What an exegetical disaster we have made of Paul’s off-hand remark!  What nonsense, what heresy we have perpetrated upon women as a…