The Seven Letters from Jesus

Last night we looked at the first three chapters of the book of Revelation. I mentioned (and put up on screen) a breakdown of the seven letters in chapters two and three that showed their parallel structures. Seeing the structure is helpful for getting a sense of the...

Prayer empowered by the Spirit

The passage below is from Gordon Fee’s book God’s Empowering Presence. Here he’s discussing Paul’s direction in the “Armor of God” passage (in Ephesians chapter six) for believers to be “praying always with all prayer and...

“That’s just your interpretation.”

Don Carson is arguably the leading living New Testament scholar. Here he helps us think through what to say when we’re speaking to someone about Jesus or truth or the Bible, and the reply we get is, “Well that’s just your...

Either Messiah, or Nothing At All.

In Mathew 16 Jesus we have it recorded that once Jesus turned to his disciples and asked them directly,  “Who do you say that I am?” It’s hard, when you read that, not to feel it leap off the page and directly address you, as if Jesus turned to you...

Speaking Truth in Our Hearts

“Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle?” asks the writer of Psalm 15, and “Who may dwell in Your holy hill?” The answers are profound. One of them is, “He who speaks truth in his heart.” Speaking truth in your own...