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This week we celebrate, in a more focused way, the incredible claim (and it is incredible when you think about it! Christianity is radical!) that the Second Person of the Trinity, the eternal Son, entered into human existence, born of a virgin, born under the law, to redeem those under the curse of the law. I know I am utterly

This week we are memorizing the Greek term qeo,thtoj (theotetos, pronounced thay-AH-tay-toss), translated in the NASB as “Deity.” I noted last time that the King James Version renders it “godhead,” which is not only ambiguous, but since the KJV elsewhere renders other less strong terms by the same word (e.g., Romans 1:20), can be quite confusing. The Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich

Finally home and have a few moments to do what I had hoped to do numerous times over the weekend…     The artificial chapter division between chapters 1 and 2 is actually fairly well placed. Paul is concerned about the infant churches, and expresses that concern in 2:1-2. He has a “struggle” on their behalf (avgw/na, agwna), and for all

As we seek to honor God by committing passages of His Word to memory I feel it is very, very important to understand the contexts and purposes of the passages we are memorizing. Rote memorization without a knowledge of the context can often lead to a misuse of those texts, and in my personal experience, I have seen many objections

I’ve gotten a few e-mails about memorization products. One, the Memorize! program from Laridian, I already had, but had forgotten to re-install after I upgraded from my Palm T3 to my T5. It works quite nicely and, if you have Laridian’s Bible software installed, getting the verses set up is pretty easy (I personally use Olive Tree and PalmBible+, so

Repetition is the mother of memory, we have been rightly told, and such is the case with the memorization of Scripture. I have never bought into all the memory systems out there that use various visualizations and tricks to remember things. Maybe I should, as I am not good with names, though I’m pretty good with faces. Anyway, I memorize

Discipline is not the first word people think of today when they think of the Christian life. Who wants discipline? We want freedom, happiness, success…but discipline? And yet, every generation of Christians in the past has come to learn the same lesson: the path to “success” (better, fulfillment, contentment, godliness) is the path of discipline. I could offer you lots