I actually forgot in the last Ps 119 post to give an assignment, a real obvious one. So this lesson is all about that. Also, you may be wondering, how many lessons is this guy going to do on TWO VERSES?!! Well, I’m going to do as many as I want! Actually, These two verses […]
photo © 2007 Mike Baird | more info (via: Wylio) a hint of spring sweetness graces the cold air the river has changed since last I went this way standing on long legs sensuous neck held aloft impossible ungainly a great blue heron lunges into flight glides effortless over the water
Today’s study: we are finishing up Ps 119:5-6. ==================================================== 5 Oh that my ways may be established To keep Thy statutes! 6 Then I shall not be ashamed When I look upon all Thy commandments. ==================================================== Father in heaven, we are beset daily with many tasks, many frustrations, and many fears. I feel them bearing […]
photo © 2007 Marieke Kuijjer | more info (via: Wylio) Ps 119 study no.3 ================================== Father, I am ignorant and distracted, pressed with many worries and concerns. I entrust them all to You now so that I can be free to be taught of You. Show me your ways in great abundance, change us […]
I have a lot of studies on various verses, so periodically I want to post them here. This the start of a whole series on Ps 119. I always start with a prayer, then the verse, then a meditation and explanation of the verse. At the end there is a suggested way to go […]
photo © 2006 James Diggans | more info (via: Wylio) “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are […]
photo © 2007 Joe Lewis | more info (via: Wylio) In a recent conversation on someone’s blog, which was very pleasant and congenial, the following comment came up: Personally, I would stress that what we claim to believe (concerning the resurrection, to what extent one believes the Bible is literal, et al.) means nothing […]
photo © 2010 Clyde Robinson | more info (via: Wylio) Jason B. Hood, in an article in Christianity Today, wrote an article criticizing the teaching of radical grace. You can read the whole article here: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/januaryweb-only/heresyisheresy.html Apparently the teaching of radical grace is much more widespread than I had realized, which is heartening! He […]
photo © 2008 viZZZual.com | more info (via: Wylio) Peter Rollins, my favorite heretic, in his book “The Fidelity of Betrayal,” shares the following story: There is an old anecdote that speaks of a couple planning to decorate their living room with attractive byt expensive wallpaper. It so happens that one of their friends […]
photo © 2010 Sue Bailey | more info (via: Wylio) “While I regarded God as a tyrant I thought my sin a trifle; But when I knew Him to be my Father, then I mourned that I could ever have kicked against Him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to […]