This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Corinthians 1:18 'For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness.' The entire verse, as it is found in 1 Corinthians 1:18, extends far beyond this initial concept about those who perish, but extends unto those who are saved.For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power o...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 27:54 'Truly this was the Son of God.' There are at least two great confessions from the lips of individuals to be found in the gospel narratives given us, and this attestation, found in our focus passage and ascribed to the centurion after that he had witnessed the convulsions that rocked the earth as the Lord of Glory 'yielded up his...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 25:10 'And the door was shut.' This Matthean passage contained in his twenty-fifth chapter, and the first thirteen verses, is considered, by all accounts, as a parable set forth by Jesus Christ. W. E. Vine, in his Comprehensive Dictionary of the Original Greek Words with their Precise Meanings for English Readers, also known as, "Vine...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 'For I am persuaded.' Paul, in that wonderfully glorious eighth chapter of his epistle to the church in Rome, climaxes with a glowing statement of anticipated faith, even unto the end; For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 'For I am persuaded.' Paul, in that wonderfully glorious eighth chapter of his epistle to the church in Rome, climaxes with a glowing statement of anticipated faith, even unto the end; For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...