Sunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
3 For among the first things I passed on to you [was] that which I also received, that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that he was...
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Sunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
1 But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 and through which you are saved, if you hold...
TTT: Know Me, Know My Blog
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. They set the topic which one of TB&TB team answers. We are then invited to blog on the same topic and...
Sunday Devotional: 1 Corinthians 2:1-2
1 And when I came to you, brethren, I came not according to superiority of word or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything...
Sunday Devotional: 2 Timothy 4:6-8
6 For I am myself already being poured out, and the time of my departure is imminent. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have completed the course, I have kept the faith....
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:13
And do not lead us into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil One. I have decided to look at these final two petitions together since they are connected. Both have points of interest...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as also we ourselves have forgiven those who owe us. The Greek of this petition uses the words opheilêma and opheiletês in reference to “debts” and “debtors.” The similarity...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:11
Give to us today the food we need. The petitions switch now to the first person plural: “us,” “we.” Jesus is shifting focus from the global to the personal. From things we want the...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:10b
Let your will come to pass, as in heaven [so] also on earth; The next petition of the Lord’s Prayer is for God’s will to be accomplished (the Greek verb I have translated “come...
Sunday Devotional: Matthew 6:10a
Let your kingdom come; This simple petition carries a lot of meaning. We have already seen in our meditations on the Beatitudes that Jesus often spoke of “the kingdom of heaven,” or “the kingdom...
