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  • Getting It Right

    and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. John 8:32 NASB Know – The Greek verb, ginosko, is frequent and clear. It describes comprehension that results from examining objects with every human mode of knowing. This means using logic, the senses, investigation, sorting the evidence and verifying conclusions. In Greek…

  • 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…

  • Certainty

    For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Psalm 51:3 NASB I know – There are very few things we know for certain. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. We don’t know if our relationships will last. We don’t know the weather. We don’t know even the apparently unalterable “laws”…

  • A Psalm’s Story

    O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His lovingkindness is everlasting. 1 Chronicles 16:34 NASB Give thanks – The story of this psalm is found in the chronicles of the kings. David receives the ark and offers sacrifices, installing Asaph and his line as priests. Then David offers this song. Its…

  • True Religion (3)

    “but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord. Jeremiah 9:24 NASB Knows – yada’, yada’, yada’. Did you ever think that this colloquialism is the equivalent of…

  • Utter Contradictions

    So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.  If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. John 7:16-17 NASB He will know – How do you know that the things…

  • Relative Ethics

    TRINITY note:  We have had some great discussion – and debate – about the previous study of the idea of the Trinity.  So many comments!  Wow, we are thinking!  Now a little break while the ideas rest a bit.  By the way, no one said we were going to SOLVE this problem.  But we do…

  • The Purpose of Knowing (1)

    I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.  Psalm 119:75  NASB Your judgments – I wonder if we can confidently echo David’s poetry.  Do we really know that the judgments of the Lord are righteous, every one of them?  The Hebrew is ki-tsedeq (righteous, just, justice,…

  • The Gospel for the Gentiles (1)

     For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Romans 1:21  ESV Knew – Paul is acknowledged as the missionary to the Gentiles.  He was commissioned to take the good news to those outside…

  • God’s Rival

    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever -“  Genesis 3:22  NASB Knowing – What does it mean to know good and evil as…