Reading the Law in the Old Testament

Ever get bogged down trying to read the laws recorded in the Old Testament (Exodus, Leviticus, etc…)? John Sailhamer has some helpful advice and encouragement  about how to read these passages of scripture. First, he lists four principles to remember when...

Our Substitute

Here’s the list I had compiled off of Thursday’s question. This was a helpful thought exercise for me… Jesus is the ultimate substitute: He was alive but became dead so that we who are dead could be made alive. He was immortal but died so that we who...

How to Do a Word Study

 You’re reading your Bible and you hit a word that just makes you stop and think. Maybe it’s because you’re not exactly sure what it means, or maybe because it has caught your imagination. Either way, you get the desire to go deeper with this...

Arise, My Soul

A hymn by Charles Wesley. Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, My name is written on His hands. He ever lives above, for me to intercede;...