“All the wrongs you have done to me” (3:11). Oof. Did you pick up that God is speaking here to His own? God says He will remove. He will purify. …
I dread getting God’s Word wrong. In the interests of full disclosure, this proclaimer of God’s Word also dreads parts of God’s Word. There are parts that seem hard to…
Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “Put it in writing”? Get it in black and white: not just words in the air, but something we can hold on to, show others—a…
It’s been nearly two hundred fifty years since we had a king. Maybe you have an interest in the British royal family, one of the best soap operas. Will Charles…
The Temple, Herod’s Temple, was built to make an impression. When architects build to impress, they think about how best to do that. Size is one factor, the scale. The…
If you were to take everything in your bank account right now and give it to God, how would you survive the rest of the day, let alone the rest…
It’s not as if, before the time of Martin Luther, there had been no inkling that something had gone wrong, that the church needed to get back to the basics,…
It takes a long time, in most cases, for the Word of God to sink into a person’s heart. It has for me! There’s so much there, already! Certainly, we…
On at least two occasions during my teaching years, a student came to me and asked, “What do I have to do to get an A?” I’m sure others wondered…
Just before what I read, the Pharisees, hoping somehow to trap Jesus, bring up the matter of divorce. Because he’s asked, Jesus gives his teaching. Divorce has been around almost…