And He said, “Who told you that you were naked?” Genesis 3:11 NASB Who – It’s the question that doesn’t belong? It’s the question that only produces more questions but no answers. “Who told you?” Well, the conversation with the serpent doesn’t say a thing about nakedness. So if you thought Adam should have said,…
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 NASB Deny himself – Abraham Heschel completed A Passion for the Truth just days before he died. In that book he compares the impact and influence…
Thus he shall purge the Shrine of the uncleanness and transgression of the Israelites, whatever their sins; and he shall do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which abides with them in the midst of their uncleanness. Leviticus 16:16 JPS In the midst of – Where is God when we sin? Do we banish…
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4 NASB Walk – I got an email. “It is certainly not your responsibility to help me but…
and I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it. Matthew 16:18 NASB My church – What a difficult verse! What theological wars it has perpetrated! What schisms it brought to Christendom! Partly because we didn’t hear…
No, it isn’t Bill O’Reilly. I’ve been a little behind on phone calls to readers since I went to Africa. That doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten you. Maybe this picture taken on one of my day’s off from lecturing will keep you reminded. Skip
Then He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ. Matthew 16:20 NASB Warned – As a result of Nineteenth Century German criticism, the idea of the Messianic secret was born. From that point on, certain theologians began to proclaim that Yeshua never really claimed He was the Messiah. …
Some time ago I gave a lecture to a graduate class on several questions concerned with logic, thinking about God and certain issues in theology. You might be interested in this. Here is the link (if you have the time – it’s pretty long).
So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Exodus 2:24 NASB Remembered – American Christianity is unique in its stress on the victorious life, its expectation of rescue at any moment, its theology of personal salvation, its assumption of assured deliverance, and its spiritualization of Kingdom battles. In…
By now you’ve probably enjoyed the treasures God left behind in Africa. You’ve seen the lions, the cheetah, the seashore, the sunsets. But there’s another Africa, hidden from the tourist magazines and the Western media. It is the other Africa that will bring me back. It is the Africa of enormous poverty, extreme racial prejudice,…
