Wide Awake

Lord, I remember Your name in the night, and keep Your Law.  Psalm 119:55 NASB In the night – Does this verse seem a little too pedestrian?  Too trivial?  Why should we care at all about what we remember in the night?  What does it matter when we’re on our way to sleep? Ah, but then there’s…

Instinctual Hope

And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.  Matthew 6:28-29  NASB Observe – We’re very familiar with these verses.  Yeshua’s reiteration of God’s…

Who Translates What

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.” Acts 21:25 NASB Abstain from – Recently a reader questioned my contention that the Acts 15 Jerusalem counsel did not establish a separate behavioral…

Two for One

Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Deuteronomy 5:12  NASB Observe – One of my dear friends sent me an article about the two Sabbath commands.  The other one is the more familiar verse, Exodus 20:8.  But if you read them side by side, you realize (especially…