Retracing Our Steps

How I loved Your teaching.  All the day it was my theme.  Psalm 119:97  Robert Alter I loved – We’ve reached the end of the Mem section of this acrostic, but before we continue, we need to recognize a larger pattern.  The acrostic is made up of blocks (verses that begin with the same letter).  Each…

What World?

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.  Romans 12:2  NASB This world – Paul strictly instructs followers of the Messiah to resist conformity to the patterns of this world,…

Manna From Heaven (4)

November 12  What say we say then?  Are we to continue in sin that grace may increase?  Romans 6:1  NASB Sin –  YHWH is a God of order.  The Genesis account of creation is a bugle blast sounding order in the cosmos.  Everything that YHWH does demonstrates ordered purpose.  And the patterns that YHWH puts…