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In Old Testament thought, moral and physical evil are not reduced to a single principle.
"Four young men have I slain with the sword . . . yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord." God's dealings with nations and individuals during trial proceed not from vindictiveness but from love and compassion, designed...
First, the word must dwell *ever with me*—constant communion with truth.
So long as a person depends upon his own wisdom, power, and goodness, disquietude and unhappiness must follow.
The psalmist approaches Scripture not as mere literature but as the utterance of Elohim *Theos*—God Himself.
Yet the Elohim who governs temporal harvests governs spiritual ones identically.
This posture teaches a fundamental principle: those called to the Lord's service must wait for His vocation rather than rushing ahead unbidden.
The prophet's vision does not end in ruin.
Jesus spoke these words as He contemplated His earthly ministry with the urgency of one watching the sun descend toward the horizon.
What is implied in being a branch in Christ?
Christ unveils a graduated progression of spiritual maturity.
During the Italian campaigns, five Austrian soldiers—cut off from retreat—rode into a French reserve encampment intending surrender.
The passage introduces this promise immediately after condemning eight species of diviners—those who read lots, murmur incantations, interpret omens from liquids in cups, work with charms like African medicine men, bind with magic knots, raise ghosts, consult familiar spirits, and...
He declares, "I have believed thy commandments"—a singular faith *pistis* that rests entirely upon the trustworthiness of Yahweh's word.
Maclaren identifies a penetrating paradox in faith: it is difficult both when we possess visible helpers and when we lose them.
On a chilly autumn morning, Sarah, a single mother of two, stood in the parking lot of her workplace, a community center that had become a source of hope for many. She had just learned that the center faced cuts...
Efforts to do good are misunderstood and ill-requited; benevolent plans are ridiculed, motives misrepresented, kindness abused, and hopes of success treated as visionary.
Christ's kingdom exists to bring rebels to obedience within God's government.
Boundaries were marked by corner-stones placed at the edges of fields.
He will turn"—was no empty threat, but a statement of divine justice grounded in Israel's own experience.
This admonition addressed the spiritual lethargy of post-exilic Judah and remains urgently applicable to baptized Christians today.
The contempt of God's Sabbaths and disregard of ministerial instruction mark our age as spiritually perilous.
The previous verse (Proverbs 16:14) describes a king's anger as *messengers of death* — swift, certain, and irreversible.
The king's desire burned with intensity—'it was in my heart'—fed by solitary meditation until it 'consolidated into a settled resolve.' Yet his hands, reddened with blood from Israel's wars, were deemed unfit for the Temple's construction.