Today’s Word
Addictive Tolerance
The one who loves pleasure is a destitute person Proverbs 21:17 (Waltke) Pleasure – Long before psychiatrists and brain chemistry researchers discovered the concept of addictive tolerance, the Bible already knew why addicts never get enough. Tolerance is the mechanism of the body that adjusts to expected levels of the addictive substance. Once the body…
Emotional Management
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. John 11:38 Greatly Disturbed – How well do I manage my emotions? Christian answers often contain a misunderstanding of the biblical view of emotional maturity. We see emotions from a Greek perspective. The Greek feared…
Enhanced Culpability
in whom we have redemption through His blood, forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace Ephesians 1:7 Sins – The usual word of “sin” in the New Testament is hamartia. This word means, “missing the mark.” It carries the idea that a sin falls short of the standard of God’s holiness and…
On Location
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies with Christ Ephesians 1:3 Heavenlies – Where is heaven? Is it “up there” somewhere, or is it found in the recesses of the heart? The mysterious location of a place called heaven causes all sorts of speculation. The word in this verse helps clarify…
The Buy Back Price
redeeming the time because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:16 Redeeming – What is your time worth? Most of us wouldn’t think of this as a theological question, but it is. We are likely to consider a question about the value of time as a business inquiry, far from the mind of the God of…
Asset Management
redeeming the time because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:16 Time – Professor R. Paul Stevens makes an important observation about our usual interpretation of this verse and its parallel in Colossians 4:5. We think that the word for time here is “clock” time (chronos); time that “can be managed, dissected, digitalized, and processed –…
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