This is a psalm of praise and thanksgivingThe psalmist rehearses God's good ness to his people and then gives us his personal response. God has tested his people and has…
This psalm acknowledges God's punishment but is slow to confess sin. The psalmist calls on God to punish the nations who were his agent in punishing Israel. He is concerned…
Paul writes about equipping the people for service so that the body of Christ may be built up. What is wanted are mature Christians who will share the various tasks…
Paul is advising Timothy on how to be a good pastor. Clearly there have been problems in the church. Sadly we all hear stories of the moral failings of people…
Before and after situation for Paul. If God had mercy on Paul, no one is beyond God's mercy. Paul was acting out of ignorance before. Much of ministry is built…
The Bible is God's self-revelation and tells us what we must do to be reconciled to him. When we are reconciled it is our moral compass. To the New Testament…
Some OT passages have given reasons to Christians to attack others and to atheist is to attack Christians. We need to study these difficult passages theologically relying on the Holy…
Paul is not worried about his imprisonment because the gospel is advancing. The Philippians are citizens of heaven and this is more important than their citizenship of Rome. Today we…
The psalmist praises the God who is all seeing (1-6), all present (7-12), all creating (13-18) and all holy (19-24). He knows zeal for the Lord is the right response…
"What would Jesus do?" we ask ourselves sometimes. Paul was faced with a difficult situation in which the sensibilities of Jewish christians were upset. How Paul dealt with this is…