The apostle Paul begins each of his letters with some variation of the greeting “grace and peace.” Many of us have read this many times that we haven’t considered why he might be doing this. Even theologians and biblical commentators often brush it off as not too important, saying it is his “greeting” which was similar to a common greeting of the day, then moving on.
1 John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he...
Abraham left Ur, in Mesopotamia, because God called him to found a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan....
To continue with a “The Culture of Contempt.” We looked at a biblical incident, the occasion of Michal’s contempt for David when the ark...
