This Week's Focus Passage: Numbers 20:10 'Hear now, ye rebels, shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?' This is a more than an interesting account of the repetition of 'murmuring,' by the people whom Jehovah had brought out of Egypt through the instrumentality of His servant, Moses. There were constant murmurings and complaints, even to the point of virtual ins...

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 1:2 'The Gospel of God which he promised afore through his prophets.' It seems that the apostle Paul is almost echoing the words of our Lord Jesus Christ of which we read in Luke's relating of the encounter on the road to Emmaus between 'the two of them that were going that very day to a village named Emmaus,' and our risen Savior. Reca...

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 27:21 'Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have set sail from Crete.' This involves Luke's record of the voyage of himself and Paul, along with, as we are informed in the first verses of this twenty-seventh chapter of the book of Acts, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica. The beginning of this voyage, recorded by Luke i...

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 17:2 'And He was transfigured before them; and His face did shine as the sun.' The Transfiguration of Jesus, is recorded by each of the three evangelists, in their Gospel accounts, which have become denominated as 'the Synoptic Gospels.' Synoptic, in simple terms, merely means, as an encyclopedia informs us, when it has declared that, ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 37:1 'Fret not thyself because of evil-doers.' The American Standard Version-1901, (ASV-1901), is one of the many English versions of the Holy Bible, of which we are aware, that contains the word, 'fret' and it contains it in seven places; and three of those seven are found in our Psalm. Here as a negative action verb,Fret not.In Levitic...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 27:13 'I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah.' A Methodist theologian, preacher, and commentator, has left on record his thoughts upon this verse of David, the thirteenth of his twenty-seventh psalm, when he wrote, very interestingly: '"I had fainted."The words in italics are supplied by our translators; ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 23 'Jehovah is my Shepherd, I shall not want.' It may well be the case that the 23rdPsalm is the best-known 'passage,' or 'chapter,' in the Bible. It is extremely likely that, even the historical usage of this psalm over many years, as a 'comfort' or 'eulogistic' portion of Scripture by families and funeral directors with, probably, as ...

This week's Focus Passage: Genesis 49:10 'The sceptre shall not depart from Judah.....until Shiloh come. Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 6:1-6 'But we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.' These words uttered by Peter on the occasion of a discrimination scandal regarding the care of the widows in the recently formed Jerusalem church right after Pentecost, were his response, his answer to this apparent dilemma. It strikes us that it corres...

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 2:39 'For to you is the promise, and to your children.' How does this statement provide support for the idea, at least in the New Testament economy, of the children of believers being considered thereby to be, 'covenant children,' or, 'children of the covenant?' Or, how is it related to the argument of the paedo-baptist, that is, that...