Author: Alasdair Paine

"You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.” (Deuteronomy 5:11, NIV)Over the summer I’ll continue the…

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow…

Tola… was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years. He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day…

“Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and…

To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people…  (1 Corinthians 1:2, NIV)The Bible scholar J.B.Phillips famously described his…

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.  You shall have no other gods before me.  (Deuteronomy 5:6-7, NIV)The first commandment is startlingly exclusive.  The…

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.  But the Jerusalem that is above…

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.  When he saw the crowds,…

May I never boast except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, though which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  (Galatians 6:14, NIV)I was…

These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness;…