INTRODUCTION The preexistence of Christ is an important topic of discussion among modern scholars. According to R. E. O. White in the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Second Edition, edited by Walter A. Elwell, “The preincarnate existence of Christ may be ‘only a simple, contemplative inference backwards from the spiritual glory of the present Christ,’ certainly…
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV New – What are you? Not, “Who are you?” Paul doesn’t answer that question here. He answers the question, “What are you?” You are a new…
I took a few pictures in the Enchantments lo those many years ago. One was of Prusik Peak. There is actually a climber on the knife edge in this shot, on the second point below the summit on the left side of the top. But the conversion from film to digital might not let you…
I will give them one heart and one way of life, to reverence me at all times, for their own good and the good of their children after them. Jeremiah 32:39 (J. A. Thompson translator) One way of life – God promises to give those who are chosen to enjoy His new covenant (see Jeremiah…
The last day or two brought a flurry of comments, especially about the idea that I suggested regarding closing the door on those who stand in opposition to God’s ways. I am sure that in a one page Today’s Word I did not communicate perfectly what I had in mind. All to the good since as…
If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. Romans 11:16 ESV Root – Nothing too unusual about this word, rhiza. Root of a plant. Foot of a mountain. Depths of the sea. By the time rabbinic Judaism developed in the…
That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 1 Corinthians 11:10 ESV Because of the angels – Sometimes when you have half a conversation in a letter from another culture and another time, you can barely figure out what the argument was all about. …
Taken in the National Park garden outside of Cape Town.
The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. Exodus 20:21 ESV Far off – When God descends on His mountain, are you near or far off? You might say, “Well, we aren’t at Sinai, so how can I tell?” But if you knew that the idiomatic use…
for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds 2 John 11 NASB Participates – We have koinonia fellowship with God’s chosen. That’s what it means to become a citizen of the Kingdom. But now John uses the same underlying verb to warn us of another kind of participation. By saying…
