There are words we use which in a sense describe the title of these thoughts. They are simple words we all understand, and the feeling we have as we use them often describes individuals who have deceived us and sometimes hurt us in the past. No one has any joy dealing with one who is phony, one who is a fake, one…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by Dan Jenkins (Page 2)
It was in the spring of the year when the barley the Jews had planted began to ripen, and they entered the fields. The Jews came together at this time for one of the three annual feast days, and part of the harvest was waved before God. Every Jewish male was required by God to come and spend time together rejoicing in…
When you first read the words of Paul in Galatians 3:11 you may not immediately understand the impact of what He said. “But that no one is justified by the law is evident…” This truth forces you to deal with how men were saved during the times of the Old Testament if no one is justified by the law. How could anyone…
Jesus described the church by saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard…” (Matt. 20:1). We read these verses and easily understand what He was talking about. We know who that Man was who owned the vineyard, but have we spent enough time thinking about what the Owner…
There are some really long words in our language. I remember years ago when I first heard what was at that time the longest one. It was antidisestablishmentarianism. I learned it when watching the national spelling bee. It took me a while to learn it, but I mastered how to say it. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is not recognized as a word, but a nonsense…
The return from Babylonian captivity is truly one of the least known parts of the history of Israel but marks one of the most remarkable periods in the lives of God’s chosen people. When Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, left the city of Jerusalem, he left nothing but ruins behind. The walls were gone and no longer was there a temple, a priesthood,…
The book of Psalms allows us to see deep into the heart and soul of the man whose heart mirrored the heart of God. The words of these psalms and the depth of the spirituality behind them should become the words of our hearts. Early in this book, David said, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart…
The Bible we read looks far different from those who first read it. It is not that parts of it have been lost or words have been changed. Jesus promised that His words (notice that He uses the plural) would not pass away as long as the world remained (Matt. 24:35). The major difference is that our Bible is divided into chapters…