Scott Peck was right. Life is difficult. But perhaps it is difficult in a different way than he imagined. He noted that our expectations of comfort and pleasure are at odds with the reality of true fulfillment. Real life comes from the willingness to live for something bigger than myself (Heschel). That means sacrifice at…
I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4 NASB Fears – Have any of your really bad dreams turned out to be real? Do you sometimes feel as if you are living in a nightmare? Even a cursory look at human history will convince you that…
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That You examine him every morning and try him every moment? Job 7:18 NASB Try – Job starts his declaration in very much the same way David does. “What is man that You magnify him and are concerned about him?” (Job 7:17) But maybe Job has a slightly different reason for his statement. David’s psalm…
but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. Acts 15:20 NASB Abstain – Can we finally put this one to bed? The council of Jerusalem issued this decision for Gentiles who wanted to join the Jewish way of…
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; . . . Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – You know, sometimes I think that all we do is circulate around poor exegesis of the Genesis text and as a result all kinds of doctrinal and ecclesiastical stupidities result. So I hate…
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV You – What a lot of confusion is caused by the failure to recognize the difference between singular and plural? In this verse, Paul…
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty. 1 Corinthians 12:22-23 ESV Unpresentable parts – Paul’s body analogy contains some rather embarrassing…
