Passage: Ephesians 1:17

How do you recognize the true work of the Holy Spirit? There's an insight in Paul's first prayer for the saints at Ephesus in which he talks about the nature of the Holy Spirit.

 Passage: Acts 2:32-36

The ascension of Jesus Christ is the most critical yet most neglected component of the gospel today. That certainly was not the case in the early church. It has a prominent place in Peter's sermon at Pentecost, the prototype of New Testament preaching.

 Passage: Malachi 3:10-11

The Lord wants to abundantly bless us, but too often we do not believe him. In fact, our actions as well as our words indict us, revealing that we really do not trust him, especially when it comes to money.

 Passage: Exodus 33:13 & John 14:6-7

As Moses talked intimately with the Lord, the Scripture says "fact to face, as a man speaks with his friend," interceding for his people Israel, he asked the Lord for an even deeper understanding and relationship with him. The Lord answered. The immediate answer was his self-descriptive revelation in Exodus 34:6-7, but a more complete and glorious revelation came later, much later.

 Passage: Exodus 34:6-7

I am going to try to comprehend the incomprehensible, explain the unexplainable, and fathom the unfathomable by attempting to define a pair of Hebrew words, hesed and emet, that the Lord uses to describe himself, words that defy a simple translation into English.