THE ETERNAL PROMISE Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 Since we’ve been saved by grace through faith in the Lord...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
OUR CONSUMING FIRE for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:29 There is no disparity between the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New. His holiness, justice and goodness is as alive and in operation as His mercy, grace and love. This...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A GLORIOUS PLEA But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,” Numbers 14:13 When interceding for Israel because of sin, Moses appeals to the LORD with...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE GOD OF VENGENCE It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31 When we were unsaved sinners, the vengeance of a holy and just God may have been a truth which warned us to flee from the wrath to come and run for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE CITY OF OUR GOD Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King. Within her citadels God has...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
GONE, BUT STILL APPLICABLE In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Hebrews 8:13 It has been said by some, “Since the new covenant has been...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE BUBBLING HEART My heart is inditing a good matter: Psalm 45:1 This oft quoted verse from the forty-fifth psalm is one which may have given English translators trouble. They do not convey the words of this first portion of the verse literally....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
SELAH In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah Psalm 44:8 Was this true of the psalmist’s people, or even the psalmist himself? Did they make their boast in God continually? or do so “all...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
TESTIFYING OF OUR BELOVED What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? Song of Solomon 5:9 A wonderful truth of Scripture in general, and Solomon’s Song in particular, is how many dimensions may be viewed and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CHRIST'S BEAUTIFUL BRIDE You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. Song of Solomon 4:9 When we see the sinless perfection and supreme majesty of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]