John 9:6-7 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash gin the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back… Read More »
Counting Days
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days,That we may gain a heart of wisdom. It seems like for the past three weeks in a row I’ve read in the news that the current oldest person in the world has died, and it’s not the same person over and over. It’s each successive “oldest… Read More »
The Best Author
John 10:25-26 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. God entrusted the religious leaders of Israel to direct His people… Read More »
God’s Deep Love
John 11:3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. In this Gospel, John is really emphasizing for us that Jesus loved these people; twice in the first 5 verses of this chapter we are told that… Read More »
Refuge
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” In verse 2 of Psalm 91, as if in response to himself, Moses says that given the wonderful knowledge of his safety in God, he will then make the Lord his refuge …… Read More »
Impressions
Deuteronomy 24:1-5 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, when she has departed from… Read More »
Truth and Death
John 11:43-44 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” The raising of Lazarus from the… Read More »
Think Twice?
1 Corinthians 1:10 (ESV) I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. I like how Paul begins – “in the name of our Lord… Read More »
Treading
Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Later in his letter to the church of Corinth, Paul pulls this verse out of the book of Deuteronomy. Paul wrote to them: 1 Corinthians 9:9–11 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox… Read More »
It’s the Message
1 Corinthians 2:3-5 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.… Read More »