Psalm: 21 Meditation Matthew: In this parable, one of the sons obeyed his father – it was the one who had said he would not go into the vineyard. This son was representative of “prostitutes and tax collectors”; whereas the other son who said he would go but did not represented the chief priests and …
Tag: Scripture
Tuesday, November 10
Psalm: 78:1-39 Meditation Revelation: I have seen the like of this before in Scripture: the fall of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The description of the fall of Babylon has been found in virtually every epoch in history – if not to us then certainly to those who lived through it. Take Paris, for example, during the …
Gospel Meditation
The difference between knowing about God and knowing God is transformation. If simply collecting information about God changed us, then James would not have written: James 2:19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder. Satan and his demons certainly have amassed information about God, but they …
Friday, June 5
Psalm: 51:1-17 Meditation Luke: The Pharisee and the tax collector. This is a very familiar parable of Jesus. Paul, himself a Pharisee, tells us “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17; Habakkuk 2:4), and he would know. Pharisees were, by and large, good people whose heart was to adhere to the Law. They were …
Wednesday, May 6
Psalm: 119:25-48 Meditation Colossians: “And I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s affliction.” (v 1:24) This is a tough one! It “…does not imply that there is a deficiency in Christ’s atoning death…which would contradict…all the rest of Scripture.” what was ‘lacking’ in Christ’s affliction was the future …
