Psalm 82: 6 I said, “You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.” This is a challenging bit of scripture, but the key is that it is scripture. If you value scripture as God’s word to us, then you have to deal with troublesome passages instead of reading over them […]
John 12: 49 – 50 NLT “I don’t speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say.” This […]
Psalm 10: 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil person. Punish his wickedness until you find no more. This doesn’t seem a very Christian concept, does it? Yet, I wager most of us have felt the emotions articulated by this psalmist. You may wish to read the entire psalm, it isn’t long, in […]
John 14: 30 I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do. Who killed Jesus? Some people say the Jews, […]
Exodus 14: 15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the […]
Psalm 12: 3 NIV May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue that says, “We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips – who is our master?” Most people wouldn’t come right out and defy God the way the speaker in today’s verse does but […]
Ephesians 6: 5 Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ. Just in case you thought Friday’s word was a fluke and could ignore it, here is another book in which God commands us to be good […]
