Today’s Word
Identity Documents
So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives, and placed them outside the camp of Israel. Joshua 6:23 NASB Young men – Apparently the author of the book of Joshua can’t really make up…
“The Departed” – Rewind
Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, Ephesians 4:1-2 NASB 1995 Worthy – Jack Nicholson delivered a memorable line in the movie The Departed. …
The Usual
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2 NASB The word – A Christian website sent me a story about instructing pastors. The elder wrote: I thought about Paul’s instruction to the young preacher, Timothy, as he spoke in 2 Timothy 4:2 (NASB) “preach the word;…
The Nuclear Option
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; I will not endure one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart. Psalm 101:5 NASB Destroy – This psalm makes an incredible claim. God will totally eliminate those who slander others in secret. It’s hard to miss the audacity of this statement. The Hebrew verb, ṣāmat, used…
Mileage Maker
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “through Isaac your descendants shall be named.” Romans 9:6-7 NASB Not all Israel – Daniel Boyarin’s study of the invention of heresy as a way to establish religious…
Number 8659
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. John 21:25 NIV Would not have room – This is number 8659. Eight thousand six hundred fifty-nine posts about biblical words. That’s…
