Review: The Expanded Bible New Testament
The Expanded Bible New Testament is a recent work from Thomas Nelson Publishers. The goal of The Expanded Bible is to help with all the problems inherent in translation. “It allows the reader to see multiple possibilities for words, phrases,…
Overtaken
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.…
The Baptism of John
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. (Luke 3:3)
As I studied Luke 3 for a future lesson in the Luke sermon series I am doing, I…
Burning Bibles
For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)
On Halloween we learned of an assembly whose leader…
NLT and 1 Corinthians 2:13
As I studied 1 Corinthians 2, I noticed the NLT’s rendering of verse 13 —
When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the…
Reaching For Humility concluded
The greatest objection to what I have written about humility is, “Don’t we need to have some self-esteem?” Yes, but let me explain how, so that we do not fall back into pride.
Who is our biggest critic? I think…
Reaching For Humility continued
The problem is not that we have low self-esteem, but that we have high self-esteem. We have pride. Consider, for all the problems that God addresses in the scriptures, where does God tell us to feel good about ourselves because…
Reaching For Humility
Humility is commanded by God. This is not an option with God. Pride violates the commands of God and the example of Jesus.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:10)
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the…
Be not deceived
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of…
But as for me and my house…
Therefore, fear the Lord and worship him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship the Lord. But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord,…