Friday, April 17, 2020
Genesis 3:14-21 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust…
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Words as Signs
What Augustine Can Teach Us About Biblical Interpretation It is no secret that Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine influenced biblical interpretation for centuries to come. He influenced, for example, Thomas Aquinas, a Roman Catholic, and William Whitaker, a Protestant who influenced…
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Because of particular circumstances I am not able to write a devotion for today. However, I gladly pass along to you the following wonderful meditation from Matthew Henry. Mark 1:29-39 And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the…
Wednesday, April 9, 2020
Genesis 12:10-20 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife,…
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Philippians 1:3-7 “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And…
Caring for a Father with Dementia
It was a pleasant summer evening in Caldwell, Idaho, and my wife and I were sitting in our home watching some TV. The year was 2012. Suddenly my cell phone rang: It was my older brother, calling me to let…
Monday, April 13, 2020
1 Peter 4:1-6 “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in…
John’s Use of the Song in his Resurrection Narrative
Don’t you love it when you hear a sermon, a very good sermon, and it overflows with fruitfulness as you find all kinds of intertextual references connecting to your own private Scripture reading? That happened to me today, as…
Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs
Editor’s Note: The following has been adapted from a chapter in Atonement, edited by Gabriel Fluhrer (P&R, 2010). Find the rest of this chapter and more at ReformedResources.org. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet…
Good Friday, April 10, 2020
Hebrews 2:9 “But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste…