The Bible speaks of several different groups of people: youth, young men/women, sons/daughters, and children. Nowhere do we find corporate responsibility for children, nor an expectation for children to be instructed apart from the family unit. For young men, the story is different. It should go without saying, but young men are men, not children. When is the transition from childhood to…
Having finished a two-part study on what it means to be a help meet, we now turn to the biblical role that God has outlined for husbands. Ephesians 5 We’ll use Ephesians 5:22-33 as our outline: Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ…
What does the Bible have to say on the topic of finding a wife?
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the Biblical usage of the word help. In this second part, we’ll look at the word meet. Meet as a verb The reader is encouraged to look up each time the word meet is used in scripture, and read each of the verses. We are going to focus on the use of meet…
Note: The following is essentially Bible study notes, and is terse in places. The reader is encouraged to use it as a springboard for their own deeper study on the subject. Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.19 And out of the ground…
Genesis 38 takes a seemingly unwarranted departure from the story of Joseph to give us an all-too-intimate account of Judah’s personal affairs. Why is Judah’s personal life important enough to spill right in the middle of an unrelated larger narrative? While the interlude seems out of place, the prominence of Judah and his family lineage in the later history of Israel shows…
The Parable Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted…
2 Peter 3 A while back I briefly expounded 2 Peter 3 in context of signs of the end. It teaches that at the end men will point to the absence of signs as proof that Jesus is not returning. Peter didn’t contradict the claim of an absence of signs, but instead pointed out the fact that God can and will bring…
Romans 11 In Romans chapter 11, Paul speaks of faith as an olive tree, from which the branches of Israel were broken off, and which the branches of the Gentiles were grafted onto. Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.17 And if some of the branches…
I recently received a question about Joel chapter 2 after a discussion about signs and the end times. Many people have the unscriptural belief that natural events such as eclipses, earthquakes, and hurricanes, somehow act as signs of the end. One of the most popular passages that people might use to support the idea of signs of the end is Joel 2:30-31.…