And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, “Do business with this until I come back.” Luke 19:13 NASB Do Business – Yeshua spoke more about money than he did about heaven. He knew where we are most confused. Here he provides us with a startling parable…
“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:” Deuteronomy 28:15 NASB Curses – You’re cursed. Maybe you didn’t know it, but that doesn’t matter….
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NASB God – Have we mined this verse yet? It’s certainly familiar, but it might be too familiar to actually understand what it says. Today I want to leave you with just a few remarks that might cause you to think once more about this…
The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” Matthew 8:27 NASB What kind of man – We are not equipped to encounter real holy men. Peter once exclaimed how wonderful it was to see his Messiah in the presence of the…
So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like any other man.” Judges 16:17 NASB Like any…
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long. Psalm 32:3 NASB Silent – David knew the truth about being silent. We might think his verse in the psalms is about his sin, but this is a general truth that applies to any action or event that isolates us from others and…
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. Leviticus 26:13 NASB Walk erect – Traumatic events fragment personality. When we experience something that violates our basic awareness of the continuity of the…
All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel. Judges 2:10 NASB Did not know – How long does it take to forget God? This verse might suggest that a single generation passed before…
Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. Judges 13:24-25 NASB To stir – Samson. We know the story, don’t we? At least we know the highlights. Don’t forget the lion…
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. James 3:6 NASB Sets on fire – June 4, 1391. Seville, Spain. Ferrand Martinez sets fire to the Jewish quarter…
