Today’s Word
A Cosmic Guide to the Trivial-but-Necessary
“and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the [a]air come and nest in its branches.” Matthew 13:32 NASB Smaller – Life can be cataloged according to two scales: Important to Trivial and…
The Hidden You
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 1 John 3:2 NASB Not appeared – Is John right? Is it really true that you and…
Molehill to Mountain
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 1 Corinthians 8:9 NASB Stumbling block – Nine miles roundtrip. Up the trail to the falls. Switchbacks. Steep elevation gains. Oh my, aches and pains. Then back down. Every step hurt. Finally on the flat trail again….
The End
who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 2 Timothy 1:9 NASB Sometimes Oswald Chambers just nails it. In his commentary of July 28, he pounds the point home…
Paul’s Shema (2) Rewind
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NASB Christ – Is it the Son’s words or the Father’s words? If you look at this verse in the King James Version, it reads, “by the word of God.” That’s because the KJV is based on the Greek Textus Receptus,…
Paul’s Shema (1) Rewind
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NASB Hearing – If you were Paul, the Jewish rabbi named Sha’ul, what Hebrew word would you have in mind when you wrote the Greek verb akoe (to hear)? There can only be one obvious answer – shema. But as soon…
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