Our weakness is not the whole story.

Here’s an interesting look at Romans 8:26, in which Paul writes: “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be...

Getting better at life

In his forward to Depression, Anxiety, and the Christian Life, J.I. Packer makes some interesting observations about the what Puritan pastors in 17th-century England worked to try to foster in the people who attended their churches. Their focus, he writes, began with...

Promoting health or throwing fire.

Check out these insights by Bruce Waltke, on Proverbs 10:11, a verse that includes this nugget: “The mouth of the righteous is a well of life.” Waltke observes: The dependence of life on water is experienced existentially all over the earth, especially in...

He was a worker.

Here’s an interesting look at one aspect of who Jesus was, from Henry Theissen’s Systematic Theology: He was an Incessant Worker Jesus said, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working” (John 5: 17), and “We must work the works of Him...