I’ve always identified with Mark Twain’s line, “It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me—it is the parts that I do understand.” It’s been my excuse for staying away from theological debates, it’s been the reason you’ll find me more often in Psalms than in Revelations. But reading Dug [...]
The following was written by a dear friend of ours and his sending it to Philip and me was something of a New Year’s gift. I know that you’ll all be glad that he gave me permission to share it with you:
Are you a Psalm skimmer? I confess that I am. I often find [...]
I sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, opened my Hebrew Bible to the Jerusalem postcard marking my place, and began to read:
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah…
Three words in, I stopped.
I was reading Isaiah 61. Which meant that despite all the debate about whether first century Jews [...]
by Jeanne L.
The Biblical phrase above just came to my mind as I started pondering this article. Then I wrote, “I suppose this is yanking the phrase slightly out of its Biblical context” as I waited for a Bible website’s search results to remind me of its origin. I [...]
In genuine spiritual worship (Rom 12:1), we bow before the Most High God, the most merciful and reliable and winsome of all beings, and we crown Him as Lord of all that we are. We consent to His gracious, transforming work in our lives; we agree that He can work in us so that we’ll [...]
