Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. Colossians 3:5 NASB Idolatry – Don’t skip through the collective arrangement. In other words, don’t treat each of these sins as if they are individual unrelated behaviors. Notice that Paul collects them under…
How blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. Proverbs 28:14 NASB Fear always – How can a man be blessed if he is always afraid? This just doesn’t seem to make any sense. If perfect love casts out fear, and we are exhorted to enter…
Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. Genesis 27:5 In the next few weeks I will publish a book on the story of Jacob. This is an excerpt from one of the chapters. Isaac’s life is one of spiritual weakness. In the face of God, Isaac wilts. He is powerless. He doesn’t…
For man is born for trouble, as sparks fly upward. Job 5:7 NASB Trouble – “Don’t give me yours. I have enough of my own.” That’s right. Each one of us has enough trouble to last us all the days we live. It’s just part of being in this world. Don’t’ believe it? Try this….
In the beginning . . . Genesis 1:1 NASB Beginning – Of course, this isn’t the real beginning. It isn’t even the beginning of all of these investigations called “Today’s Word.” But it is a beginning, and with that in mind, a few things must be said. Beginnings happen all the time. Every day is…
You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. Matthew 10:22 NASB To the end – You made it! The end of the Roman year. You endured. There were lots of difficulties along the way. Crisis. Collapse. Catastrophes you…
Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor. 1 Corinthians 10:24 NASB His own good – Tomorrow will mark the end of the Julian calendar year. The world at large will celebrate, honoring a Roman alteration to previous tribal and ethnic ways of counting dates. One tradition of renewal is the…
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my…
They cried for help, but there was none to save, even to the Lord, but He did not answer them. Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind; I emptied them out as the mire of the streets. Psalm 18:41-42 NASB Emptied them out – How long have you carried the enemies…
I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were consumed. I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. Psalm 18:37-38 NASB I shattered them – What enemies must you pursue? What opponents must you utterly defeat? What must be crushed…
