This Random Bible Verse comment was originally published as “The Anointed Cloth and Healing” in CGG Weekly on April 13, 2018. “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them …
On the other end of the link is an enlightening blog post, “Parchments,” by Mike Wittmer, giving us some idea how much it cost Paul, the church, or some patron to write and copy each of the epistles we now have in our New Testament. Doing God’s work, even then, was …
“Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: ‘Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself . . .’” —Acts 24:10 The apostle Paul found himself in the custody of …
This Random Verse Comment was originally published on December 7, 2013. I hope it is not a post that will live in infamy! . . . and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his …
I first let this little Random Bible Verse comment into the world on October 26, 2013. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. —I Corinthians …
This may well be the most random verse that my random verse generator has spit out yet! “He wrote a letter in the following manner:” —Acts 23:25 The apostle Paul was in trouble. He had been arrested in Jerusalem by the Roman commander (technically, the chiliarch), Claudius Lysias, essentially for …
I published this Random Bible Verse comment for the first time on another blog on August 25, 2012. “. . . but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.” …
First published on March 24, 2012. . . . since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints; . . . —Colossians 1:4 This verse appears in the middle of a longish introductory sentence by which the apostle Paul lays the groundwork …
