This Week's Focus Passage: Colossians 1:13 'The Fathertranslated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love.' We are prone to attribute, entirely, our redemption to the vicarious life, on earth, and the vicarious death, on the cross, of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. After all, He is the One, who spoke those pre-incarnate words found in the fortieth psalm,Lo, I come...

This Week's Focus Passage: Ephesians 3:14ff. 'For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father.' It is very likely that it need not be said, that this wonderful prayer of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, that was initially written "to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus," has equally been intended for those of us, in the church of Jesus Chr...

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 2:13 'So then, my beloved.. work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.' What is the apostle's meaning when he has begun this paragraph with the words,So then, my beloved.? One writer has helpfully granted to the reader, what his thoughts are concerning the thoughts of Paul. He has written the following: "Such a sketch...

This Week's Focus Passage: Philippians 3:1 'To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe' Paul begins this third chapter (of course, we must bear in mind the reality that the chapter divisions, in our English translations, are not inspired), but he began here, with the lovely sentiments,Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord....