by Will | Aug 11, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
Matthew 5:33-37 (NIV): “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the...
by Will | Aug 7, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
Matthew 5:31-32 (NIV): “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who...
by Will | Aug 6, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
2 Samuel 11:4 (NIV): Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. There is no small amount of irony in this single verse. Bathsheba had offered the sacrifice...
by Will | Aug 6, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
2 Samuel 11:4 (NIV): Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. There is no small amount of irony in this single verse. Bathsheba had offered the sacrifice...
by Will | Aug 3, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
Psalm 126:4-6 (NIV): Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him. Many in America these days...
by Will | Aug 2, 2013 | Scripture Meditations
Psalm 44:1-3 (NIV): We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago. With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish. It was not by...