This Week's Focus Passage: Hosea 4:17 'Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.' A relatively recent translation of the Holy Scriptures, the GOD'S WORD translation, renders this verse in the following manner;The people of Ephraim have chosen to worship idols. Leave them alone!When we consider communion as a "being joined" and "having chosen to be joined", it is diffic...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 13:21 'One of you shall betray me.' We may read, in Psalm 41:7-9, the following, rather astounding words of deception and betrayal, in this predictive Davidic psalm, when the Holy Spirit says;All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast un...

This Week's Focus Passage: Daniel 4:37 'Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of Heaven.' The book of Daniel begins with this historical note;In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jeru-salem, and besieged it.Nebuchadnezzar is, to say the very least, a very interesting character, related to...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 9:25 'One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.' And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered, neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifes...