“I will praise You, for You have answered me, and have become my salvation” (Ps 118:21). We have come to the last psalm of the Egyptian Hallel, sung by the Jewish people at the conclusion of the Passover celebration. We can hardly expect to be dry-eyed as we imagine an Upper Room, a handful of men […]
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CHRIST the OUTPOURING: “He poured out His soul unto death” (Isa 53:12). When Christ “emptied Himself” (kenoo, Php 2:7), who received the outflow of this fullness? We know the answer: “of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace” (Jn 1:16). If we can truly hear what Paul tells the Ephesians, we should […]
“Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!” (Job 26:14). The theater of Aspendos is one of the best-preserved in the Roman world. Built from 161-169 AD in Lycia (modern Turkey), an area visited briefly by Luke and Paul as recorded in Acts 27, the […]
Charles Darwin wrote: “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree” (Origin of Species, 1859, […]
Once again “mercy and truth have met together” (Ps 85:10). Mercy makes us promises; truth keeps them. Just about at the middle of our Bible, we have the shortest psalm. Psalm 117 has just two verses, composed of 17 words in Hebrew, unless “Praise the Lord!” is left as “Hallelujah!” But what a glorious subject! Two ideas are presented: the Occupation of Heaven […]
The SON and the BREATH of GOD: Even the breath of the Lord has power in it! We know the Son was the Creator of everything (Jn 1:3). How did He do it? “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth” […]
“I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel” (Ps 31:12). Supposedly designed to look like a stairway to heaven, Wat Arun (“Temple of Dawn”) dominates the western side of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. The Buddhist holy site is noted for its colorful, glazed ceramic […]
Don’t the following verses teach that all people will ultimately be saved? Col 1:20; Eph 1:10; 1 Tim 2:4-6; 4:10; 1 Cor 15:22-28; Phil 2:9-11. This is the teaching of Universalism. Note that both Col 1:20 and Eph 1:10 speak of reconciliation, but only of things in heaven and earth, not things under the earth. […]
For centuries Jews have broken bread and taken the cup of salvation without knowing the real reason. Let’s take one more look at Psalm 116. It plays a strategic role in history. Recall that this psalm is included in a collection of six psalms (Ps 113–118) known as the Egyptian Hallel, sung by the Jewish people on […]