Random Bible Verse Commentary entries
“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 …
I wrote this essay, “Our True Identity,” for the CGG Weekly on October 20, 2023. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!” —I John 3:1 Once, thinking people searched for answers to the “big questions,” the first of …
“Then the whole congregation sent word to the children of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and announced peace to them.” —Judges 21:13 While the book of Judges intends to relate the history of the children of Israel during the tumultuous time before Israel had a king, it …
In his August 2, 2023, article, “Acts 2 & the Tongues Controversy,” Shane Rosenthal explores what Luke actually says in reporting on the astounding miracle of language on that first Pentecost in ad 31. What occurred that day does not support what the Pentecostal movement claims. . . . in …
I wrote this essay, “Can We Trust Luke?” for the July 28, 2023, CGG Weekly. “. . . it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus . . .” —Luke 1:3 …
Tim Challies, writing in his post, “If Satan Took Up Marriage Counseling,” provides thirteen pieces of “advice” that the Devil might give were he a marriage counselor. They sound oddly like what this world pushes on the subject. If Satan took up marriage counseling, he would want people to believe …
