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When “Abba” Became “My God”

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study, Theology

Yahweh. We say it now with some casualness. It’s another name for God, albeit in another language. It’s become a helpful tool for sounding smart or spiritual – like a more official title for deity or something like that. Not so to the Hebrews. This was a holy name. THE holy name. The name that [...]

Consciously Linking Belief and Action

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

Now there’s a blog title for the “duh” category… right? I mean, it’s all over the Bible. What we believe is always linked to what we do. How do we know that Abraham believed God? Because he trusted against reason that he could have a son as an old man that would be the bearer [...]

The Medicine for the Disease of Self-Deception

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study, Church

Matthew 7 is one of the most terrifying texts in the entire Bible: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven. On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your [...]

Be a Conduit, not a Cul-de-sac

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

The blessing of God doesn’t end with you. We want it to. We want to be blessed for our own sake. But we’re not. Think about Abraham. Here was a man who was greatly blessed by God. God Himself promised it to be so: “I will make you into a great nation, I will bless [...]

If You Were Squeezed, What Would Come Out?

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

We get squeezed in certain times of life. Sometimes the squeezing is more dramatic than others. Our job is deleted. We should have been prepared. We should have had more savings. We should have had a better resume. Squeeze. Tighter. Parenting is harder than we thought it would be. We are daily stressed because of [...]

What is Satan REALLY Saying in Genesis 3?

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

“Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made” (Genesis 3:1). Really? When you look at what serpent, or Satan, said to Eve, it doesn’t seem THAT cunning. In seems in fact pretty straight forward. But read between the lines with me. Satan is saying something [...]

One Caution in Reading the Bible Through in a Year

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

In some ways, the seasons of Nashville have fit the chronological reading plan of Scripture I’m following this year. For the last three months, it’s been blisteringly hot. Pretty dry. These are the dog days of summer. Concurrently, the read the Bible in a year plan has had me in the minor prophets. And Jeremiah. [...]

Spurgeon on the Prodigal Son

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Beautiful: This poor young man, in his hungry, faint, and wretched state, having come a very long way, had not much heart in him. His hunger had taken all energy out of him, and he was so conscious of his guilt that he had hardly the courage to face his father; so his father gives [...]

The Irony of Hating Your Family

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My, oh my, but Jesus sounds mean in Luke 14:26-27: “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.” Apart from the meanness, this seems to contradict what we find, among other places, in Paul’s [...]

Hospitality: An Essential Quality for Church Leaders

Posted by MK | Filed under Bible Study

There are a couple of texts that describe the essential qualities for elders in the New Testament. In 1 Timothy 3:1-13, the list appears back to back with a list for qualifications for deacons. The two lists are pretty similar to each other. And on both lists, there are some of the attributes one might [...]

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