Some of you asked about Matthew Wilson’s book, The Simplicity of Holiness, when I cited it in one of the Today’s Word editions. As you discovered, the book is nowhere to be found at booksellers. But I have procured four (4) copies from Matthew. They are $20 including postage in the USA. If you want one…
For my soul has had enough troubles, and my life has drawn near to Sheol. Psalm 88:3 NASB 1995 Has had enough – Is your life filled to the brim? Oh, I didn’t ask if it is filled up with good things. I just asked if you feel as if it is up to the top. Yes, it’s…
because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.) Mark 7:19 NASB Thus He declared – Every author has blind spots. Yes, even me! So when we read commentary and exegesis and other spiritual material, we must always keep a sharp eye for incidental,…
The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Genesis 2:23 NASB This is now – Sometimes the smallest words require considerable investigation. This is one of those times. We’ve looked at this verse over and over. We’ve…
Praying Loudly with No Volume By Dr. Roderick Logan, DPTh, CFTP Feeling overwhelmed often leads human beings to believe they are small and insignificant; leaving them with a heightened sense of loneliness. Society’s occasional hostility and general indifference will even affirm this notion. Stressed out individuals will conclude, “Why bother taking a second look?” Daring…
“They have acted corruptly toward Him, they are not His children, because of their defect; but are a perverse and crooked generation.” Deuteronomy 32:5 NASB Not His children – Jeffrey Tigay points out that the syntax of this verse is particularly difficult. He suggests that it is the result of scribal error and he offers a few…
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB Our image – We just…
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:4 NASB Idol – In August, 2017, Chaim Clorfene published an article with an enticing title: “How to Save the USA in Ten Easy Lessons.”[1] He…
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.[a] Deuteronomy 32:8 NIV Sons of Israel – Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm, noted in a lecture I attended that the Masoretic text of this verse…
but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. John 20:31 NASB Jesus is the Christ – Of course, we need to correct the theological overtones here. John is writing, by his own admission, to demonstrate that Yeshua…
