Verse 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’  Verse 1 records that “the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah”, and this promise in verse 3 was given to Jeremiah while he was suffering in prison.  Those “mighty...

1 Peter 2:1-2 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby Question: God’s word is non-material, so how can it be so important for growth? This...

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying;“Whom shall I send,And who will go for Us?”Then I said, “Here am I!  Send me.” The Nature of God’s Calling – of Isaiah, and Us In our career and worldly choices, we tend to rely on our awareness of our abilities and...

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,And He delights in his way.Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;For the Lord upholds him with His hand. This is a delightful psalm.One verse of interest was 11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth,”, which...

“Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” “the outward man is perishing” As a young man, I used to commute an hour each way to work every day by bicycle; the money it saved helped to...

"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." Verse 16 talks of the word of Christ dwelling in us, and how this is expressed in psalms and hymns with grace in our hearts to the Lord. The use...

“So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” The problem In chapter 9, Paul deals with the question of how so many of the Jews rejected Jesus; for they were children of Israel (or Jacob), inheritors of the promises given to...

“beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” Mark 3:6 explains why Jesus grouped these two groups together, “Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him. What is the leaven of the...

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Question: What does “to live is Christ” mean? How does it work? When we believe in Christ we are baptized, not only with the outward water of repentance like that of John the Baptist, but by Jesus, Matthew 3:11 “with...