Random Bible Verse Commentary entries
I wrote this essay, “The Prophecy in Psalm 22,” for CGG Weekly on April 19, 2024. “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?” — Psalm 22:1 Most people who are familiar with the Old …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “God Has Not Called the Atheist,” on March 9, 2024. “And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.” —Acts 13:48 I recently had a social media encounter with three authors whose works I have read extensively. They reacted to a C.S. Lewis …
Tim Challies offers another good recommendation for parents, “The Parenting Book Too Few Parents Read.” Acknowledging that rearing children in this culture is difficult, Challies encourages parents to tap the wisdom of experts, those who have already displayed success in this area of life. I believe that many parents fail …
“O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our hearts are wide open.” —II Corinthians 6:11 Understanding II Corinthians as a whole requires knowledge of the often-strained relationship between the apostle Paul and the church in Corinth. The city was a crossroads of the pagan Mediterranean culture of the day, …
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.” —Revelation 16:13 Revelation 16 contains the seven bowl judgments, what the King James Version called “the vials of …
“There I will provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.”—Genesis 45:11 Joseph, vizier of Pharaoh, whose primary charge was maintaining Egypt during the seven-year famine that ravaged the Near East in his day, …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “The Governors of Judah,” on December 29, 2023. “In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on …
This essay, “Jesus, Nathanael, and Jacob’s Ladder,” appeared in CGG Weekly on December 15, 2023. And He said to [Nathanael], “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.” —John 1:51 A distinctive facet …
