This Week's Focus Passage: Hosea 4:17 'Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.' A relatively recent translation of the Holy Scriptures, namely, 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 'being joined' and 'having chosen to be joined,' it...

This Week's Focus Passage: Jude 14 (Monday Moanin') 'And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied.' Who was Enoch? At the first glance, it would appear that there were two men, in the Word of God, called by the name, Enoch. And the seemingly simplest manner of distinguishing them, one from another, is to 'search the Scriptures,' where we find several ref...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 11:43 'He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.' There are, actually, three separate occasions, recorded for us in the Scriptures, where our Lord Jesus Christ, performed the miracle of raising to life one who was already dead. And the account of Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, found only in the eleventh chapter of John's ...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 John 3:1 'Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us.' The entire pericope should be set before us here, in this week's comments; Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Belove...