In the spirit of such olfactory tropes, John’s verse about the sweet smell of the nard in that Bethany dining room endow that moment with divine peace and blessing. And the verse is especially vivid in contrast with the stench of mortality hovering around the tomb of Lazarus a few days e...
Do not ever forget that God gives us His Holy Spirit when we believe in Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is God’s seal on us that guarantees our salvation. We do not seal ourselves. Our good works would never be enough to earn enough grace to guarantee redemption. We are only righteous bec...
The disciples, as we have told, in verse eight, had left Jesus as they’ve come walking through the morning, perhaps they've been walking for five or six hours. They had eventually reached this town of Sycar. They had come to the well, that was famous because it was the well that J...
If any verse were to win the “Most Likely to be Overlooked” Award for the Passion accounts, this might be it. Instead, it’s once again proven that no verse from God’s hand is an afterthought. The women watching their Savior being laid to rest in death…rested on the Sabbath. Am ...
Luke 11:2 NU omits the rest of v. 2. Luke 11:4 NU omits But deliver us from the evil one Luke 11:11 NU omits bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for Luke 11:15 NU, M Beelzebul Luke 11:22 plunder Luke 11:29 NU omits the prophet Luke...
In Isaiah Chap 55: verse11 Jesus tells us, "So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Romans 10:17 "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God...
13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom...
” signs identify as christians.They probably go to church that supports Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Law, and the pastor backs up his bigotry by quoting a Bible verse that says,“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these ...
Beyond that, what the Jews, with all the rest of us, contributed to Christ’s excruciating sacrificial death was simply the need for it. All mankind was in bondage together. All mankind, both Jew and Gentile, to Calvary’s magnificent story only contributed the disease of sin; it is God...
God is our Creator and Savior, granting us rest from sins by becoming one of us to give Himself for our sins. God is in us by the Holy Spirit, empowering us to love and serve like Jesus did: sacrificially and humbly, with a boldness from God. ...