It's really dead. It's like a long enough that, okay, now it's time to really say goodbye. This is permanent. What does it mean? Two things that came to mind that really stood out for me this week in this passage. The first is this: there's more to this life than sorrow and...
they go down into the inner parts of the body. 23Like theglaze[f]covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. 24Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; 25when he speaks graciously, believe him not, ...
exegesis- an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) text- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon" Gabriel- (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God ...
"love, true love, will follow you forever." The power of love is at the center of relationships and marriage, so it's no surprise that scripture has a lot to say about the powerful concept. You might be wondering "How many times is love mentioned in the Bible?"...
Notice verse 15 says,“Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them…”. I especially like the English Standard Version (ESV) of the passage –“Jesus himself drew near…”The thought here isn’t that these two disciples were simply geographically distant, but that their FAITH was dis...
Each idea is connected to its “reflection” by a repeated word, and the result is a mirror effect that emulates the ideas in a passage. Many passages in the Bible exhibit chiastic structure, for example, Mark 2:2, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath”, and ...
Attention is paid to the use of idioms, artistic elements, confusion of pronouns, repetition of conjunctions, modern sentence structure, and the public reading of the passage. To help the reader understand how the new rendering of a passage compares to the original texts, several indicators are ...
Israel wanted a king "like the gentiles," and God said this was a rejection of God (1 Samuel 8). ← Read that passage. Having a king is a rejection of God.Having a military is a rejection of God.Is the Bible about going to heaven when you die, or is the Bible an Anarchist ...
“In this way”all Israel (the initial and later parts of the believing remnant of natural Israel) would be saved – meaning that more natural Jews would come to believe, having been “provoked to jealousy” by faithful Gentiles and be grafted back into the Abrahamic olive tree of promise ...
From day to day, I have my best educated guess as to how this or that bible passage should be interpreted. Anything I say in a podcast is just one of innumerable possible approaches. I don’t have answers or conclusions so much as I have ideas and hunches and epiphanes and questions ...