Today I will be traveling to Israel where I will be for 3 weeks, then on to Spain, then Greece and finally home 6 weeks from now. As you can imagine, writing Today’s Word every day while putting in these kind of miles is a bit daunting. So, here is an official “rewind,” a TW…
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21 ESV Will save – Is salvation proleptic? Ah, what a great word! You might have to look it up, but just in case you don’t have time, “prolepsis” means “the representation of…
If any one thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord’s commandment. 1 Corinthians 14:37 NASB Prophet – Who thinks he is a prophet? It seems like an odd question, doesn’t it? Paul doesn’t ask, “Who is recognized as a prophet among…
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. …
