See No Evil

The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. Isaiah 45:7  NASB Calamity – If God is sovereign, then why is there evil?  How can a good God allow evil in the world? If you’ve never struggled with these questions, perhaps you haven’t read…

Adam’s Taxonomy

Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.  Genesis 2:19  NASB Name – Adam must have worked overtime.  Can…

Thinking About Time

And these are the generations of Terah:  Genesis 11:27  (translation J. Green) These are the generations – We are familiar with the Hebrew term toledoth, in this verse, e’le toldoth.  We investigated the problem with the spelling of this word.  We’ve noted that the toledoth pattern is the structural framework of Genesis and the deliberate…

A Comma Here, A Comma There

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace.  Ephesians 2:14-15  (almost)…

The Simple Life

“If the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it?  How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’!”  2 Kings 5:13  NIV How much more – Are you waiting for God to appeal to your noble instincts?  Do you withhold obedience because He hasn’t…