Today’s Word
Lockdown
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker Philemon 1:1 NIV Prisoner – Who is responsible? That’s the underlying question here. Is Paul’s imprisonment due to the Romans? The Jews? The opposition to The Way? The puppet governor of Judea? Paul doesn’t seem to think so. As far…
The Biblical Footnote
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. Acts 4:10 NASB Name – “In the name of Jesus, stand up and walk.” And, of…
No, Thank You!
Go; behold, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves. Luke 10:3 NASB Like lambs – It’s hard to miss his point. Sacrifice! That’s what happens to lambs among wolves. Yeshua sends out the seventy without resources and, apparently, without protection. So why would anyone go? If I came to you and…
The Final Opinion
Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of His faithful ones. Psalm 116:15 Robert Alter Precious – John Hartley expresses our common assumption about the term yāqor in this verse. Life is valued very highly in the ot. David would not kill Saul even when he had the upper hand because he…
The Name
Let them know that your name is Lord, you alone are the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 83:19 New American Bible Revised Edition Your name is Lord – Let’s start this Gregorian calendar year with the right name. For most of our lives we’ve followed the Jewish convention of using “Lord” for the Hebrew…
Eternal Return
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV Time – Mircea Eliade helped us recognize the “myth of eternal return” in the ancient world. Tomorrow is the Western celebration of that pagan ritual, an annual homage to the ancient idea of the circle of life (as…
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