... ,” The Week (1-18-08), p. 4. Cited by Keith Krell, https://bible.org/seriespage/12-tale-two-heads-romans-512-21. 3. Doc’s Daily Chuckles, docsdailychuckle-join@freegroups.net. 4. Tony Campolo, Let Me Tell You A Story (Word Publishing, 2000), pp. 34-36. Cited by Dr. R. Tim Meadows, http://www.tellicochurch.org/Sermons/060205.html. 5. “The Preacher and the Felon” by Susan M. Bottoms, R.N. in Nursing 2004, reprinted in Reader’s Digest, September 2004, p. 216.
... the year with your bounty.This is a reference to the harvest. 65:12–13 the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks.These lovely metaphors (vv. 8–13) are a descriptive way to say, “The earth declares the glory of ... of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began” (2 Tim. 1:8b–9 ESV, emphasis added). And Peter declares that God made provision for our redemption through Christ’s precious blood “before the ...
... the actual Hebrew and is near to the reading found in the NRSV: “Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow.” Such a reading returns to the thought, found in verse 10, of Yahweh’s delight in Israel in the beginning, and is then contrasted ... the metaphor used, it was free to move as it willed and to eat as it walked (cf. Deut. 25:4; 1 Cor. 9:9; 1 Tim. 5:18). It therefore needed no guiding yoke upon it (cf. Hos. 4:16). But because Israel has refused to fulfill its covenant with its Lord ...
... of man and joins the two together and becomes our Mediator. "For there is one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. 2:5) His middle name is Christ. The name Christ literally means "Anointed One." Christ is His holy name. As Christ He is our Messiah. ... his signature on the corner of the sunrise: He's the owner! He didn't have to put a laundry mark on the lapel of the meadow: He's the owner! He didn't have to carve his initials on the side of a mountain: He's the owner! He didn't have ...
