Commentaries
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Youssef

5 Freedom from Financial Bondage Darius I (550–486 BC) was one of the great kings of Persia and the grandfather of the Persian king Artaxerxes, who is described in the ...
( Category: Old Testament March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-01 | Author:Swan II, Talbert W.

15 The Devil’s Prostitute By Tim Gilbert After struggling with Homosexuality for over 12 years I went through a barrage of pain and suffering. The son of a Pentecostal pastor, ...
( Category: Commentaries March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Tokunboh Adeyemo [Adeyemo, Tokunboh]

14:1-35 The chapter opens with a contrast between the wise woman and the foolish one (14:1) (although the original Hebrew reads ‘wise women’, using the plural). The former builds her ...
( Category: Commentaries March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Phillip Campbell [Campbell, Phillip]

Chapter 11: The Genealogy of Christ Moving from the Old Testament to the New Testament, we see that the Gospels begin with a difficulty that has probably become the most ...
( Category: Commentaries March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

2. And I will make of thee a great nation. Hitherto Moses has related what Abram had been commanded to do; now he annexes the promise of God to the ...
( Category: Old Testament March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-10 | Author:Motyer, J. Alec

c. The incomparable God of Israel: the world ruler (41:1–7) This section (cf. p. 298) is presented as a court scene (‘let us meet together at the place of judgment’; ...
( Category: Old Testament March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Barry Webb

Envoys from Babylon (39:1–8) Enter Merodach-Baladan (1), and with him a whole new chapter in Israel’s history. It may be difficult for us (knowing what subsequently happened) to think of ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Loveday

The context of Mark’s Gospel (about 70 AD) The first Gospel in date of composition is Mark, written around 70 AD. What is the context in which Mark wrote? ‘Well ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-13 | Author:Gary Michuta [Michuta, Gary]

Mark 4:1-11 - Christ's Fast in the Desert is an Answer to Israel's History (March 24, 2017) When God became man and dwelt among us, everything He did was revelatory ...
( Category: Commentaries March 7,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

But it is to be noted that adulteries are more and less infernal and abominable. The adulteries that spring from more grievous evils and their falsities are more grievous, and ...
( Category: Christian Theology March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Walter Brueggemann

When the church conducts its liturgy, when the church reads the Bible, when the church declares the gospel, it engages in a counteract, counteracting the world so long dominant among ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Michael Coogan [COOGAN, MICHAEL]

OTHER PROHIBITED SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS Following the list of prohibited relationships between a man and women under another man’s control, Leviticus 18 continues with other prohibitions. The first forbids having sex ...
( Category: Old Testament March 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:J. Andrew Dearman [Dearman, J. Andrew]

GOD’S WILL TO SAVE. Hananiah speaks forth-rightly about God’s sovereignty in a time of flux and uncertainty. According to this prophet from Gibeon, not only is the Lord of history ...
( Category: Old Testament March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:J. Gresham Machen [Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham)]

The mention of the Pharisees leads naturally to the second division of our sketch of pre-Christian Judaism—namely, the Law. According to Baldensperger, the two foci around which Judaism moved were ...
( Category: Commentaries February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-22 | Author:Paramahansa Yogananda [Yogananda, Paramahansa]

Throngs pressed upon Jesus as He stood by Lake Gennesaret. He saw two ships anchored while the fishermen had gone out to wash their nets. He boarded one ship to ...
( Category: New Testament February 28,2020 )