by admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Jesus' Prayer, Section Five, To Make Holy
The next form of ἁγιάζω I want to consider is found in Jesus’ prayer to his Father: Set them apart (ἁγίασον, a form of ἁγιάζω) in the truth; your word is truth.[1] But I’m making a slow pilgrimage through his prayer because I believe I can know his holiness here. ...
by admin | May 18, 2018 | Section Four, To Make Holy
I tend to use the word believers for ἐκκλησία primarily because the word church had become a not-for-profit corporation managed and operated by believers. It helps me study the Bible as if it pertains to me, rather than as a search for bylaws and provisions for the...
by admin | Sep 8, 2015 | Chapter 12, Love, Rejoice in hope, Romans, Section Three
Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.[1] I want to look at this as a description of love rather than as rules to obey. To begin I’ve made the following table. The Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5:22, 23 (NET) Joy (χαρὰ) I have told you these things...
by admin | Apr 22, 2013 | Antichrist, Section Two
Before I could write about Lars von Trier’s movie, I had to return to what John the Apostle had to say about antichrist (ἀντίχριστος). 1 John 2:3-6 served as a preface and point of departure for that study. Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we...
by admin | Sep 18, 2012 | Chapter 3, Romans, Section Two
Where, then, is boasting? Paul continued in Romans. It is excluded! By what principle (νόμου, a form of νόμος)? Of works (ἔργων, a form of ἔργον)? No, but by the principle (νόμου, a form of νόμος) of faith (πίστεως, a form of πίστις)! For1 we consider...