But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits that name of the Lord Jesus, saying Acts 19:13 Went From Place To Place – The single Greek word perierchomenon covers the entire thought “wandered from place to place”. Some translations use…
you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth Genesis 4:12 Fugitive and Wanderer – Aimless. Staggering. Terrified. Cursed. Are those the words that come to mind when you think of “the land of Nod”? I doubt it. These days the land of Nod is more often associated with children’s bedtime stories and…
You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing any more, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot Matthew 5:13 Salt – Is Jesus speaking about you in this sentence? Do you want to know how…
then you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you. For it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the just. Luke 14:14 Will Be Repaid – Yesterday we learned that the state of blessedness is entirely up to us. When we give to those who cannot give back, we align…
But when you make a banquet, call the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; and then you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you. Luke 14:13-14 Blessed – All of the Beatitudes found in Matthew 5 and Luke 6 begin with the Greek word makarioi. It is the signal for a…
For a spirit of harlotry is within them, and they do not know the LORD Hosea 5:4 Harlotry – Hosea was a man none of us would aspire to be. He encountered the dangerous God. He obeyed the dangerous God. As a result, he spent his life in ridicule as the cuckolded husband of a…
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 Takes Away – How did Jesus “take away” your Sin? That’s Sin with a capital “S”. We’re not talking about all those individual misdeeds and rebellious acts and injuries. We’re talking about the big S, the guilt that you bear…
It is by the kindness of Jehovah that we are not destroyed for His mercies never fail. Lamentations 3:22 Mercy – Gender sensitivity did not begin in the Twentieth Century. It began when God created us male and female. The Bible is very specific about this connection. Genesis 1:26 tells us that God said, “Let’s…
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God 2 Corinthians 4:2 Hidden – Why does the mythology of Superman endure? From time immemorial, men and women have all wanted to be super people. Invulnerable. Powerful. Rescuers of others. What makes the Superman myth so…
but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God 2 Corinthians 4:2 Shame – Why are the things of shame hidden? Why not say, “the obviously shameful things”? The answer may lie in the difference between my inner self and my outer observation of others….
