If My people would heed Me, if Israel would go in My ways, in a moment I would humble their enemies and against their foes I would turn My hand. Psalm 81:14-15 (Hebrew Bible) Robert Alter In a moment – God made a promise 3000 years ago. That promise was simple. If Israel keeps His…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23 NASB Fall short – Maybe we’re just not prepared to deal with the implications of homelessness. Maybe we just haven’t seen enough. But I’ve seen a lot. And I’m tired. The more I travel, the more I see men and women…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23 NASB Fall short – Just how far do you think you’ll get with modern men and women by telling them that they are sinners? Can I suggest that unless you are speaking to people who have some sort of connection with…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 ESV Sinned – Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc., that is, an addition to a verb. Noun: a word (other than a…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 NASB Have sinned– Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, I was taught that it was just my nature to sin. In fact, I couldn’t help it. I was lost, and as a lost one, the only rescue possible was for God…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 NASB Have sinned– Let’s reconsider Paul’s declaration. If sin is basically disconnection (i.e., disconnection from the source of life—God—and consequently from His creation including other people), then Paul is declaring that each and every one of us experiences, at some level, a sense…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23 NASB All – Because we have focused our religious attention on justification by faith, we tend to read this verse as a preamble to the next one, that is, “being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in…
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 3:23 NASB Fall short – Just how far do you think you’ll get with modern men and women by telling them that they are sinners? Can I suggest that unless you are speaking to people who have some sort of connection with…
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless. Philippians 3:6 NASB Blameless – If we were to use the Josh McDowell technique of “Evidence That Demands a Verdict,” we would have to say that Paul was either a liar, a lunatic or saying something that we…
