Psalm: 93 Meditation: RomWhy does Paul differentiate between life in the flesh and life in the spirit? Why did the law fail those that thought they could earn salvation through obedience to the law? Why is the life and sacrifice of Jesus important to Christians? What did Paul mean when he told Christians their bodies …
Tag: Spirit
Friday, March 10
Psalm: 70 Meditation: 1 CorThis passage is just as appropriate today. Arguments about the spirit vs the body, what is immorality, sin and which sins are worse persist today. Corinthian worship was through temple prostitutes. Some in that church wanted to blur the lines of “acceptability.” Paul states the reasons that Christians have a body …
Sunday, February 5
Psalm: 24 Meditation: GalWhat is liberty? What is Christian Liberty? In our country, or those like us, we look at that word as freedom. Examples would be speech, religion, movement. At the time of this passage and in autocratic societies, liberty could mean freedom from servitude and compulsion. Here we learn that the gift of …
Monday, June 20
Psalm: 89:1-18 Meditation: ActsWhy does mankind insist on telling an omnipotent God what he can and cannot do? Jesus regularly healed with his word, his touch, his spirit, and by the hem of his robe. The shadow of Peter heals the believers that it falls upon. Later, Paul heals people with cloths and aprons. Why …
Wednesday, June 1
Psalm: 76 Meditation Ezekiel: Here we read about the restoration of Israel. As the Jews currently are in a (or several) foreign land(s), the Lord tells Ezekiel to announce this good news to the exiles. Embedded in this passage is also the promise of regeneration: “I will give the one heart and put a new …
Thursday, March 31
Psalm: 65 Meditation Romans: We have an obligation as Christians to live according to the Spirit Whom we receive upon conversion. This says we are adopted by God whom we can now call “Daddy” (“Abba”) or “Papa”. This is now an intimate relationship not borne of fear. We don’t pray as we ought so this …
Saturday, February 5
Psalms: 124, 126 Meditation Galatians: Living by the Spirit and being guided by the Spirit (v. 25) sounds like Paul is addressing more mature Christians as opposed to recent converts. Continuing in chapter 6 Paul makes it clear that even the mature Christian must nurture his own life through the Scripture (v. 6) and to …
Thursday, July 8
Psalm: 72 Meditation Romans: The opening lines of this passage are so triumphant that they should make all of us who are in Christ to jump up and down with joy. That has not been my experience as I observe most Christians around me. We revisit, to some degree, what we looked at in chapter …
Friday, September 18
Psalms: 69 Meditation 1 Corinthians: I think that today most Christians whether they know it or not, are dualists. That philosophy condemns the flesh as being evil and he spirit (soul) as being good. Paul wants us to understand that because Jesus lived a perfect life – his flesh was also good as when God …
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