I have a terrific announcement. Mark Nanos, author and editor of the collection we are currently studying on the web site ivebeenskipped.com, will be offering his comments on the topic. If you are a participant in the study group, you will be able to listen to Mark’s insights into Paul. This is a rare opportunity….
And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Isaiah 56:6-7a NIV All – Each one…
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. Romans 15:2 NASB 1977 Please – The wonderful thing about paradigms is that they help you make sense of the world. In fact, if you start discovering anomalies in your world—things that just don’t add up–paradigms offer useful solutions. You can claim…
to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, Ephesians 3:6 NASB Fellow heirs and fellow members – Put aside, for a moment, the great theological themes of Paul. You know, those doctrines like justification by faith, election, righteousness, predestination, and…
Today I was in the Duomo in Parma, using a long telephoto to get pictures of the details in the ceiling. Since the Duomo is perhaps 60 feet from floor to ceiling, and it’s always dark, I knew I would find something there that you wouldn’t usually see. Low and behold, here are two examples….
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Teach us – The disciples were Jewish, through and through. They had been praying in the synagogue and in their homes since they were…
For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe. 1 Thessalonians 2:13 NASB Accepted – This verse raises several important questions: 1) Why did…
a person who touches any such shall be unclean until evening, and shall not eat of the holy gifts unless he has bathed his body in water. Leviticus 22:6 Until – Eve Levavi Feinstein points out that the biblical idea of pollution (ritual and moral) is quite similar to our present idea of environmental pollution. She writes:…
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 NASB Sexual immorality – As you know, there are two kinds of impurity in the Bible. The first is ritual impurity. All kinds of ordinary human conditions can be the cause of ritual impurity, like seminal emissions…
I know it’s Shabbat, but I thought you might like to see this beautiful work on such a lovely day.
