This Week's Focus Passage: Daniel 3:17 'Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace.' Sermons, books, and Sunday School lessons have resounded over the years with the exhortation, in one form or another, in some words or other, that the hearers, readers, or students, should, 'Dare to be a Daniel!!' The great, marvelous faith of Daniel, rig...

This Week's Focus Passage: Job 42:5 'But now mine eye seeth thee.' Wishing to make it absolutely clear that it is not, in any way, being suggested that this experience of Job recorded in the 42ndchapter of that inspired book of the Older Testament, we nonetheless, suggest that it does give every indication, in its progress and process, that what Job has been led to utt...

This Week's Focus Passage: Micah 7:18 'Because He delighteth in lovingkindness.' The grand and gorgeous pericope from whence this blessed truth emanates cannot but be replicated below as a gracious and glorious statement about our God: Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? he retainet...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 17:23 'Thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.' Wow! Allow me to state that once again for your reading pleasure. Jesus here informed His disciples in the midst of what is frequently referred to as, His 'High Priestly Prayer,' in John 17. The sentence has its beginning in verse 22, and flows into, and includes, ve...

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

This Week's Focus Passage: John 13:21 'One of you shall betray me.' We may read, in Psalm 41:7-9, the following, rather astounding words of deception and betrayal, in this predictive Davidic psalm, when the Holy Spirit says;All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast un...

This Week's Focus Passage: Daniel 4:37 'Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of Heaven.' The book of Daniel begins with this historical note;In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jeru-salem, and besieged it.Nebuchadnezzar is, to say the very least, a very interesting character, related to...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 9:25 'One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.' And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered, neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifes...

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 John 1:1-4 'These things we write, that our joy may be made full.' John's epistle, which we know as 1 John, may, some have implied, been an accompaniment to his gospel; they may have been written almost together. John writes from, perhaps Patmos, to his church in Ephesus. Again, it may be that this epistle is complementary, in some way or ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Ezekiel 36:26 'A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.' This glorious promise of Jehovah is frequently paralleled with that found in Jeremiah 31:31, which is expressly declared to be, by Jehovah Himself, a new covenant. And it is cited by the author; the writer/preacher of Hebrews, in his eighth and tenth ch...