Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 NASB Anxious– “for nothing.” Well, that’s a pretty big order. “Nothing” covers a lot of things. Just about everything, in fact. So Yeshua didn’t have much to be anxious about, right? After all, he had a…
And Jesus said to him, “‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” Mark 9:23-24 NASB Unbelief – What is “unbelief”? Is it some sort of doubting? Or maybe not having the right answers like failing an examination? Or maybe it’s just the inability to make the…
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Genesis 1:3 NASB Said – Why is the Genesis account of creation so radically different than other ancient accounts? It’s not because the Genesis story is the only story of creation. All the ancient societies had creation myths. The difference is the mechanics of creation. Genesis portrays the beginning of the world with sounds. God…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 NASB Have sinned– Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, I was taught that it was just my nature to sin. In fact, I couldn’t help it. I was lost, and as a lost one, the only rescue possible was for God…
Irn shrpns irn s n mn shrpns nthr Proverbs 27:17 Shrpns – Can you read this verse? It’s only missing the vowels, but vowels are the units of the sound system of a language that form the nucleus of a syllable. You can’t speak without them. But you can read. Why? Because you read the vowels into the consonants. The consonants are merely the framework for engagement. They hold up the house while you go about…
but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, 1 Corinthians 1:27-28 NASB Shame – Does…
Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.” Numbers 13:1-2 NASB Send out for yourself – When you…
Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. Genesis 32:24 NASB Left alone – Who is the “man” Jacob wrestles? Perhaps we need to listen to another story of psychological isolation. “You are the man!”[1] As I have explained in my book Crossing, Jacob isn’t wrestling with some apparition nor with the supposed pre-incarnate Christ nor with YHVH. Jacob…
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5 NASB Knowing good and evil – Read the text again. What does the serpent claim will happen? Sometimes we think that the serpent offers eternal life (“You will be like God”), but that…
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. Genesis 17:7 NASB You and your descendants– Are you ready? Are you ready to really deal with the implications of God’s covenant promise to Abraham? Oh, I’m sure you think that…
