This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Peter 2;7 'And delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked.' The larger context of our 'focus verse,' just above, is 2 Peter 2:4-9:For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the ancient world, ...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 7:5 'For even his brethren did not believe on Him.' Does this statement above from the writings of John, the evangelist, not throw us into something of a consternation? The first time that we ever read these words informing us that even the brothers of Jesus did not believe on Him, we were able to receive it, only with a certain degree of...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 6:44 'No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me, draw him.' The sixth chapter of John's Gospel is one of the longer chapters in the New Testament, of the Word of God. Now we hasten to point out, again, that the chapter divisions in our Bibles, are not inspired; they were added some time later. In fact, resorting to the intern...

This Week's Focus Passage: Ecclesiastes 12:1 'Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth.' We live in a time, and in a day, when this extremely sound advice coming from "The Preacher," or, Koheleth, in the Scriptures, the Word of God, under the title of Ecclesiastes, in most copies of the Bible, is soundly ignored by the vast majority of persons in our country...

This Week's Focus Passage: Jeremiah 6:16 'But they said, we will not walk therein.' Jeremiah 6:16 contains one of the most beautiful exhortations in the whole of the Word of God. We read in that lovely and compelling exhortation here given. This has been a blessed direction for many over decades and centuries, and more; it is most certain. "Stand in the ways, and see." ...