Ok, so there was a lot of talk of sin in today’s reading. Before I give my thoughts on the reading, maybe we should define the term. What is sin? Sin is a word we don’t hear much in our culture today, much less in our churches. I think part of the reason is that…
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In the beginning of the chapter we see all the children of Israel assembling in Shiloh to set up the tabernacle. There were good reasons for going to Shiloh. One was that Shiloh was in the middle of the area designated as the Promised Land. The tabernacle had been kept in the middle of the…
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What we have in the first verse of Psalm 110 is an example of how the English language is not as clear as the original language. Verse one begins with the words, “The LORD said to my Lord”. Not all that clear, right? Let’s see what the original language reveals. We’ll start with the first:…
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Oh my goodness. I love Romans, but the richness…the depth…the detailed thoughts penned for us by Paul with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, makes it difficult to…no impossible to synopsize easily on a podcast like this. So can we agree that what I’ll do as we read through Romans is to just perhaps whet your…
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I would like to apologize for missing yesterday’s episode. This past Saturday morning I had to have our 13 year old shih tzu, Sparky, put to sleep, and we just really had an emotionally draining weekend. I would have normally recorded yesterday’s episode on Sunday night, but I have to admit that I just wasn’t…
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Have you ever been falsely accused? Attacked? I have. And it hurts. The human part of us wants to strike back, but then we remember what Jesus said in His sermon on the mount in Matthew 5:38 and 39, “38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth…
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In this chapter the apostle Paul is, of course, speaking to the Jews again. And the purpose of this chapter is to answer questions and objections that some Jews had in regards to their position or status as Jews, and to point out further the relationship of the law to faith. Paul reassured the Jews…
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Let’s take a look at chapter 14 for a moment. Joshua has gathered Eleazar the high priest and the leaders from each tribe in order to divide up the land of Canaan by lot as God had instructed Moses. But we see at verse 6 that Caleb, accompanied by the leaders of the tribe of…
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In this Psalm there are several calls to give thanks to the Lord, for he is good and his loyal love endures. We hear this refrain four times: Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love,and for the amazing things he has done for people! And the Psalm ends with the line:…
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In Romans 2, the apostle Paul is focusing his attention on the Jew. Understandably, the typical Jew felt that he was better than any non-Jew, or Greek as today’s translation says, or Gentile as is commonly used. I say understandably because the Jewish people are God’s chosen people. It was them to whom God spoke….
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