John 6:35, “I am the Bread of Life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” The Son, broken by the Father, offered in the Spirit, received by faith IS the Bread by whom every human hunger is satisfied. May God give us grace to turn away from […]
John 4:35, “Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.” And the harvest is reaped—even now—as the crucified and risen Jesus is proclaimed in the power of the Spirit.
Isaiah 19:21-22, 25, “And YHWH will make Himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know YHWH in that day…And YHWH will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to YHWH, and He will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them… ‘Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work
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Job 1:21, “the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” I started reading Job this morning and was freshly struck by the words of Job 1:21…scripture is often like a mold, forged by God, into which He invites us to pour the molten anguish of
John 17:11, “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” In 17:6 Christ says that He has manifested the Father’s Name to those whom the Father has given Him. Now in verse 11 He asks that those same ones
John 17:3, “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” John 17:3 is one of the most paradigmatic verses for me in all of scripture….it overflows with implications for all of life and informs pretty much everything I do and create…So with
Romans 6:3-4, “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in
Song of Songs 8:6, “…love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.” During the “poetry” section of my morning readings, I’m working through Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs, which I like better). There’s long been debate on
Romans 3:26, “…it was to show God’s righteousness at the present time, so that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” In reading through Romans 3 this morning I was once again struck by how Paul emphasizes what the cross tells us about GOD as
Hebrews 2:9, “…we see Him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor BECAUSE OF the suffering of death…” And if the death of God the Son has been turned to the crown of His honor, what suffering will not be made to serve
John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice…” If we’ve heard the voice of our Shepherd calling our name in the love of Calvary, we are His sheep.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4, “I delivered to you as of FIRST IMPORTANCE what I also received: that Christ died for our sins…that He was buried, [and] that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures…” The Person and Work of Christ is the Sun of our theological solar system.
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John 8:28, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He…” The window into the heart of ‘I AM’ opens widest at the cross. When Jesus says that He’s the Light of the World in John 8:12, I think we are to understand that most
Joel 2:32, “…everyone who calls on the name of YHWH shall be saved.” Luke 23:42, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom…” Paradise opened to the thief when he called on the name of YHWH incarnate, Jesus Christ (whose name means “YHWH Saves”).
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2 Corinthians 4:6, “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” The Spirit-wrought work of regeneration causes us to see the crucified Christ and say, “my Lord and my
Isaiah 26:3-4, “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.” The thing that stands out in this text is that a PERSON–namely, Yahweh God Himself, is the anchor for our peace….and we
Notice the repeated Hebrew word for Banner/Signal (נס) in the following verses: Exodus 17:15, “And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, ‘YHWH Is My Banner (נס)” – YHWH as נס Numbers 21:8, “And YHWH said to Moses, ‘Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole (נס), and
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Isaiah 13:13, “…the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of His fierce anger.” Matthew 27:50-51, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit…And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.” If you are
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Isaiah 11:12, “He will raise a signal for the nations, and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah…” John 12:32, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” (see also John 11:51-52) As the crucified and risen Son is lifted up
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