This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 26:29 'Until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.' What a day that will be; that day when the Bridegroom shall come for His bride, the Church, and take us away to the marriage supper of the Lamb. It should be no wonder if we long for that day in a manner and with a true heart after God entirely superlative to t...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 55:6 'Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest.' David has begun this fifty-fifth psalm with pleadings unto Jehovah, that He would grant to give him [David] a hearing; thus he cries unto Him: Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restl...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 55:6 'Oh that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest.' David has begun this fifty-fifth psalm with pleadings unto Jehovah, that He would grant to give him [David] a hearing; thus he cries unto Him: Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication. Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restl...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 1:28 'Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge.' 'Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And He answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they have suffered these thing...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 46:10 'Be still and know that I am God.' "A Mighty Fortress is our God," (Originally written in the German language with the title "in feste Berg ist unser Gotte") is one of the best known hymns by the protestant reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymn writer. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and 1529. One...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 16:12 'But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.' In the text that we are looking at this week, we are told that Jesus made it clear to the disciples that when He spoke of the leaven of the Pharisees that He was telling them to beware of the teaching of those men. How are we to reconcile that statement with another in ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 16:12 'But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.' In the text that we are looking at this week, we are told that Jesus made it clear to the disciples that when He spoke of the leaven of the Pharisees that He was telling them to beware of the teaching of those men. How are we to reconcile that statement with another in ...

‘The Egyptians whom ye have seen today, Ye shall see them again no more for ever.’...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 27 'Jehovah is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear?' Psalm twenty-seven is yet another Psalm of David. In spite of the reality that Psalm twenty-three is, arguably, and that, without any doubt, the most well-known psalm in the beautiful catalogue of songs by David, as well as others employed by God's gracious activity, to pen t...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 10:3 'Thomas, Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus.' We may read, in "The Gospel According to Matthew," the calling, by Jesus, of the twelve disciples who were to becomes the twelve apostles, found elsewhere on numerous occasions in the Newer Testament, simply referred to as the Twelve. These twelve are enumerated...