make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome withgrief and learning the cause, said, "Pray do not grieve so; butgo and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that thegold is still lying there. It will do you quite the sameservice; for when the gold was there...
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. Lamentations 1:19 I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in ...
3:1 In this chapter, Jeremiah is speaking. 3:3 God may be angry with his people and he may punish them. He punishes them so that they learn from him. But they must not think that he has also stopped loving them. God is not against them, but he is against their sin. 3:21 Jerem...
1 Corinthians 14:6Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?2 Timothy 3:16-17All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for ...
Isaiah 53 is a complex passage. My approach won't be a verse-by-verse commentary, but a topical study of five themes which relate to Jesus' work of atonement. 1. The Servant Is a Substitute Who Bears Our Sin The first clear theme on atonement is that the Servant -- or Lamb, in ou...
asked him, "O holy father, suffer me to rest and refresh myself awhile in this site of good omen; then deign point out to me, I pray thee, the direction of the place, at no far distance herefrom, wherein are found a certain Speaking-Bird and a Singing-Tree and a Golden-Water....
"And when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done is secret, will reward you..."Matthew 6:6
Theologically speaking, we recognize the centrality of God’s grace in our missional endeavors. It is through God’s transforming grace that we are empowered to proclaim the Good News and invite others into a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ. This grace extends to all people, and...
city of Tyre. The“strength”(or fortress) of the sea is the rock-island on which the new Tyre was built. In the phrase יָם מָעוֹז the word יָם is used as a noun and suggests that the sea is speaking. Could this be a reference to a Canaaite god...
It is in this large way of looking at the Hebrew literature that we discover its real preciousness. And when we get this large conception, then petty questions about the absolute accuracy of texts and dates no longer trouble us. “He who has once gained this broader view of the Bible,”...