Exploration, Part 21

I want to continue hearing with faith1 the truth of the Gospel in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (Ephesians 4:1-6 Berean Literal Bible): Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling to which you were called, with all humility...

Exploration, Part 6

Paul continued to describe the freedom for which Christ has set us free1 (Galatians 5:18-21 ESV). But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality (πορνεία), impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,...

The New Covenant, Part 3

In an article, “All of America Must Be a Hard Target to Prevent Mass Shootings,” James Pinkerton wrote: Reacting to an earlier school shooting, former Los Angeles police officer J. Warner Wallace identified four driving causes: “an increase in social media use”; “an...

Psalm 22, Part 5

This is a continuing look into Psalm 22 as the music in Jesus’ heart as He endured the cross. Masoretic Text Septuagint Psalm 22:13 (Tanakh) Psalm 22:13 (NET) Psalm 21:14 (NETS) Psalm 21:14 (Elpenor English) They [strong bulls of Bashan] gaped upon me with their...

Fear – Deuteronomy, Part 1

Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1]  The word forbidding gives...