Thought Police (rewind)

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.  Psalm 139:2  NASB Thought – God knows it all, right?  He knows every thought you have, every fleeting desire, every inclination, every unvoiced declaration.  We all agree.  God knows us—perhaps better than we know ourselves.  After all, He is the omniscient external…

The Labyrinth (rewind +)

O Lord, You have searched me and known me.  Psalm 139:1 NASB Searched – Does anyone really know you?  Do you really know yourself?  If the research into personality and identity formation is correct, we would be inclined to answer both of these questions with, “No.”  There are some really good reasons why this is the case.  First,…

Power Harnessed

28   Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.  Philippians 4:5 NASB Gentle spirit – What is the biblical idea of “gentle spirit”?  Is it meekness, sympathy, benevolence, a demure attitude, a light touch?  If those are your synonyms, what you do think about Moses, Jeremiah, Peter?  Would you say they had gentle…

Blasphemy Against the Spirit (rewind)

“Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven.”  Matthew 12:31  NASB Woe to those who call  evil, good; and good, evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  Isaiah 5:20…

Sea Day

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.  James 1:6-8 NIV Doubt –…

Process or Event

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV Created – How are we to read the opening chapter of Genesis?  With our current cause-and-effect model of existence?  Or with the eyes of an ancient society surrounded by various gods?  Is Genesis 1 an explanation of the origin of our cosmos even if it…

Getting Saved

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.  John 12:25 NASB Keep it – Want to know how to get saved?  Yeshua gives you the simple answer: hate your life in this world.  What?  How can the one who embraced…