Today’s Word
Yoda Theology
“If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.” Genesis 4:7 NASB Master – “To be sure, we sin. Each of us has a yetser, an impulse to evil,…
Give You All I’ve Got for a Little
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan. Genesis 37:1 NASB Sojourned – Did you think Jacob’s emotional trauma was resolved at Jabbok? Do you believe that crossing over into conscious self-identity means finding peace? Perhaps you need to reconsider. The Joseph story begins on an ominous…
Death By Chocolate
for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Romans 8:13 NASB Deeds of the body – We agree with Paul. We need to put to death the “deeds of the body.” But what…
Cosmic Shift
For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. Romans 8:19 NASB Sons of God – How about you? Do you anxiously await with eager expectation the revealing of the sons of God? Or do you dread the Day of Reckoning? Or, perhaps even worse, you just…
Nine Ways from Sunday
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2 NASB Law – Paul is a complex writer. He uses Greek vocabulary to its maximum. In fact, sometimes he just makes up words. So to imagine that Paul always means…
The Rational Man
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? Romans 7:24 NASB Set me free – Just for the moment put aside Augustine’s exegesis claiming that this verse is the expression of Paul before he became a Christian. Historical analysis demonstrates that Augustine’s conclusion is wrong. At the…
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