Psalm 34:1-8 There are many right ways to look at and evaluate the people in the Bible. But there is one simple and profound way in which people are portrayed, one key way in which their hearts and lives are measured. You see, people can be divided into two camps: The grateful and the thankless. […]
Daniel 9:1-19 We have moved forward in Daniel’s life. We’re now in the 66th year of his exile from Judah, so he’s in his 80’s now. What Daniel did and saw in this chapter dates from 539 B.C., the first year of Darius the Mede’s (Gobryus’) rule as king over the Persian province of Babylon […]
God opposes and humbles the proud Daniel 4 God pickles the proud and makes preserves of the foolish Questions: What has pride cost you? What has God’s grace gained you? Which is the better paymaster? Chapter 2 records the Living God revealing to Nebuchadnezzar, the source of the greatness of his kingdom and rule over […]
Daniel 2 Do you ever wonder: Where am I in history? From the perspective of the sovereign on His throne in heaven, where do we in the 21st century fit into God’s plan of the ages? Is there a plan of the ages, or are we just blindly stumbling forward through human time unending? In […]
Isaiah 44:28-45:5, Ezra 1:1-2 With all the changes in our society, the confusion and clashes in our government and among nations, one is inclined to wonder, “Just who is in charge of all this?” God’s people have historically taken comfort in the answer to that question, found in the pages of the Bible: God is […]
Nehemiah 7:73-8:12 What does a genuine, Biblically grounded, Spirit-driven revival of a people look like?There have been revivals of different kinds in history. America has had several. Wales had one. Europe during the Reformation period. Some obviously driven by the Spirit using His Word to pierce and change minds and hearts and lives. Some driven […]
Nehemiah 8:1-8 Is the Bible understandable and its meaning plain and clear? Or is it obscure, requiring mother church and a priestly caste to safely unravel its mysteries? This was the line in the sand drawn by men like John Wycliffe,William Tyndale, Martin Luther, and Miles Coverdale. They went to great lengths, some even to […]
Jeremiah 23:28-32 Jeremiah the prophet, speaking the word of the LORD, stood like a rusty but grim sign with its skull and crossed bones, warning about the presence of a lethal mine field. Immovable, he stubbornly stood for many years and warned the LORD’s own, the people of Judah, of their eventual destruction because of […]
Genesis 15:1-6, Romans 3:19-30 Early in WWII a group of American soldiers on an island in the South Pacific were captured by an overwhelming Japanese force. They were held prisoner along with many British soldiers for many months. To pass the time they organized classes and lectures. One class was on American History, taught by […]
Today’s teaching from the Word is simple: Who is Jesus? What does He claim to be and to do? What is His relationship to His sheep, and theirs to Him? And because of Who He is, His sheep, being secure in Him, have true and knowable moral duties and prohibitions.