Let’s address the Bible outside of any other context. Are we supposed to think about the Bible as a sequence of words put together in a certain way so that we know how we’re supposed to live? Are we supposed to read Leviticus and begin stoning people who work on the sab...
5Alsowhenthey shall be afraid ofthat which ishigh, and fearsshall bein the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6Or ever the silver cord be lo...
And now we recognize for the first time just how deeply shaped Moses has become by the new story into which he has been inducted, and by his convictions about the character of the God who is authoring it. For at this crucial moment in his life his trust in God issues, not in obedienc...
The images that appear on these 21 crosses are listed below along with photos of each cross. They are listed according to the side of the cross they appear on: E, S, W, N; and their positon on the cross. The panels on the shaft of the crosses are identified by number, beginning at...
Again, this refers to tradition which is found outside of the Bible.James 4:5 – James even appeals to Scripture outside of the Old Testament canon (“He yearns jealously over the spirit which He has made…”)2 Peter 1:20 – interpreting Scripture is not a matter of one’s own ...
‘The LORD is our righteousness” (Jeremiah 23:6). “He shall say, ‘Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength'” (Isaiah 45:24, NKJV). We’re not righteous on our own. We need “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe” (Romans 3:22...
If he can’t take care of his word like he promised, something that has always been pure (Pro 30:5), then why is he going to preserve you? But here’s the flip side: if you are one of those people who claim to hold to the preserved word of God in the King James Bible, but...
“Whenever we have to choose between what the Bible says and what anything else says, we choose the Bible every time.” “The supremacy of Scripture is not a dictate imposed on us by a faceless despot. The words of Scripture are the words of Jesus, the Good Shepherd who laid down his...
I have to tell you, though, the thing that most struck me was how this devotional is written for every Catholic woman–not every married Catholic mom of little ones, as often seems the case, but every Catholic woman, whatever her vocation or stage of life. Different days focus on differen...
There were many fine people who had found that they could put their hope not in an industry or not in economics, but had put their hope in the Lord Jesus Christ and were trying to live in light of that hope. I had the privilege of helping them to do that as their pastor; it was...