Originally posted: 3/30/2020

Accurate: “free from error especially as the result of care; conforming exactly to truth or to a standard; (of information, measurements, statistics, etc.) correct in all details; exact; going to, reaching, or hitting the intended target, not missing the target.”
Accounting: “a systematic process of identifying, recording, measuring, classifying, verifying, summarizing, interpreting and communicating [credits and debits]. It reveals profit or loss for a given period, and the value and nature of assets, liabilities and equity.” Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/29/2020

What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? ⁴ May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar… (3:3-4). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/28/2020

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? (2:4). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/27/2020

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith,” (1:16-17). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/26/2020

Just: “guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness; done or made according to principle; given or awarded rightly; deserved, as a sentence; in accordance with standards or requirements; (especially in Biblical use) righteous.”
Merciful: “full of mercy: compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one’s power; compassion, pity, or benevolence; something that gives evidence of divine favor.” Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/25/2020

Surely at the command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, ⁴ and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord would not forgive, (24:2-4). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/24/2020

Weight: “the ability of someone or something to influence decisions or actions; respect, influence, trust or importance.” Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/23/2020

But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord thus shall you say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Regarding the words which you have heard, ¹⁹ because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord, (22:18-19). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/22/2020

“I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab…” (21:13 HCSB). Continue reading →

Originally posted: 3/21/2020

Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?” ¹⁰ So Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps,” (20:9-10). Continue reading →