The Other Shoe (Rewind)

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.  Romans 10:10  NASB Resulting – You’ll need to read a few other English translations of this verse to see the issue. “For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses…

Hitchhiker’s Guide (30)

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  1 John 1:9  NASB Confess – What is confession?  The Greek (homologéō) gives us an answer.  It is “to speak the same thing.”  To confess is to agree with God’s assessment of…

With Footnotes

When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the Lord, and that person is guilty, then [a]he shall confess [b]his sin which [c]he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.  Numbers 5:6-7 Confess – Did…

The Other Shoe

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.  Romans 10:10  NASB (1963) Resulting – You’ll need to read a few other English translations of this verse to see the issue. “For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one…

Eye of the Beholder

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.  Psalm 139:14 A note:  This went out yesterday.  It wasn’t supposed to, but with plenty of time zones to traverse, I just got the day wrong.  So here it is on the…

True Confession

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 NASB Confess – This verse was standard protocol while I was growing up. I heard it over and over, perhaps because I used it so much to wash away my guilty…

The Other Shoe

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.  Romans 10:10  NASB Resulting – You’ll need to read a few other English translations of this verse to see the issue. “For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses…

Phonetic Confusion

He that conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.  Proverbs 28:13  NASB Confesses –  “Yada, yada, yada,” is a common Hebrew phrase that has made its way into English.  We are familiar with its idiomatic meaning – “and more like that” or something similar.  You know…

Dialing 911

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9  NASB Confess – “What can wash away my sin?  Nothing but the blood of Jesus,” wrote Robert Lowry in this famous hymn from the 19th Century.  He was absolutely right.  Nothing…