A discouraged post-exilic community has stopped rebuilding the temple. Through the godly leadership of the high priest Joshua and the Davdic descendent, Zerubbabel, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah spur the…
Is. 9:6-7 cannot be understood outside its context. When we understand why 'Zebulan and Naphtali' is such a strange place for light to come from (see Ch.'s7-8) only then do…
Paul continues to defend the gospel and try to help these confused believers who have been persuaded to go back to the Law. Paul now uses an analogy from Roman…
As we observe the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, we look at 1 Tim. 6:11-16. Here Timothy was told by Paul to 'hold on to eternal life'…
The apostle Paul continues defending his apostleship and the gospel here when he recounts the incident when he had to rebuke Peter. Peter had been pressured by Jewish legalists not…
Paul continues to defend the gospel and his apostleship by showing the Galatians that he received it from Jesus and not from man. He spent very little time with the…
Be still and know I am God was written and sung in the context of experiencing a great military defeat in Israel's past. The sons of Korah - experiencers of…
This is another favourite verse of ours that many of us have misapplied. Here in Phil. 4, Paul thanks the Philippian believers for providing for his needs again. What he…
