Today’s Word
Questions Worth Asking
“Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things?” John 3:10 Understand – The educational model of this world is not God’s model. This statement has nothing to do with the subject matter. It’s not about “creationism” versus “evolution.” It’s not about how to teach moral concepts (or how not to…
Open Marriage
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; Genesis 24:67 Took – It’s symptomatic of our Greek cultural ethos that we immediately think of the Hebrew word laqah from the perspective of eros. When the text says that Isaac took Rebekah,…
Wake Up Call (2)
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share 1 Timothy 6:18 Good Works – Did you think that doing good (yesterday on agathoergeo) was good enough? Not quite. Paul adds another qualification with the phrase “good works.” The problem is that we don’t see the difference in…
Wake Up Call (1)
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share 1 Timothy 6:18 To Do Good – There are only two places where this word is used in the whole Bible (and in between). The only other occurrence of this word is in Acts 14:17* where Paul describes God’s…
The Great Seduction
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field Genesis 3:1 Crafty – Adam and his wife thought they would be like God. Instead, they just discovered they were naked. It was the greatest seduction the world has ever known. If we could just peer into the Hebrew in this verse, we…
How To Pray
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension. 1 Timothy 2:8 Wrath and Dissension – We know that prayer is the operating power of God’s redemptive plan. We know that prayer is deeper, more powerful, more courageous and more demanding than any other spiritual discipline. …
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