Today’s Word

Today’s Word

  • Too Late for Me

    Will You do wonders for the dead? Will the shades arise and acclaim you? Selah. Psalm 88:11 (Robert Alter translation) Wonders – When is it too late? When does the power of the Lord cease to be effective? When you’re dead! Death ends it. As the Korahites sang, we can cry out to the Lord…

  • The Borrowed Text

    If you say, “See, we did not know this,” does He not consider it who weighs the hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work? Proverbs 24:12 NASB Weighs – How much of the Bible is borrowed from other cultures, even…

  • The Messianic Claim

    who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, Romans 1:4 NASB Declared – Leon Morris is recognized as one of the premier Greek scholars of the New Testament. His commentary on Romans[1] demonstrates his facility with the language…

  • Not What We Expected

    Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, Romans 1:1 NASB Gospel of God – Dwight Pryor’s lectures on Paul and the Protestant paradigm challenge our presuppositions about Paul’s letters.[1] Pryor makes many significant points, but chief among them must be his focus on the meaning…

  • Growl and Moan

    This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Joshua 1:8 NASB Meditate –…

  • What We Know

    that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; Philippians 3:10 NASB Know – The Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, never intended to change the course of modern philosophy and linguistics. He wrote only one book. Most of his later works were notes…

  • Yom Kippur

    Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat. Leviticus 16:15 NASB For the…

  • Shake, Rattle and Roll (again)

    He only is my rock and my salvation,
My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 NASB Shaken – In Hebrew, the word for “shaken” is ‘emmots. It is from the same root as the word for yoke (motsa’). Both of these words carry the imagery of a pole used as a walking stick…

  • Capital Crimes

    When the wicked perish there is rejoicing Proverbs 11:10 (Jonathan Sacks translation) When – Do you have a religious duty to report and testify against a criminal? While most of us might say, “Yes,” when it comes to actually following through, we are often much more hesitant. We imagine the protracted process of the courts,…