“Feed My Sheep” Walter Kaiser Jr. is reading Peter the way Peter wanted to be read. The believers receiving this letter were not a project. They were not on probation. They were a new building — not the old house of deniers– being built into a spiritual house, being made into a holy priesthood. The […]
“He Has Spoken in His Son” Walter Kaiser Jr. is naming the move that makes Hebrews work. Thirty-five direct Old Testament quotations. Fourteen uses of promise — more than any other New Testament book. The author is not throwing away the Hebrew Scriptures to make room for the Son. He is showing that the Hebrew
“They Are Still in the Sky” Walter Kaiser Jr. used to say it in lectures with a half-smile. I checked before I came in. They are still in the sky. The stars, he meant. Yeshua said it Himself — until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,
“He Is Coming With a Shout” Walter Kaiser Jr. is making a quiet move there that you can miss if you go too fast. Paul is not coining new language for the Thessalonians. He is reaching back into Joel and Zephaniah and pulling forward a phrase the prophets had been using for centuries — the
“Received, Therefore Walk” Stop and feel what Paul is saying. The eternal plan was not to send you a message about God. The eternal plan was to put God inside you. Every other religion offers a path toward the divine. The gospel announces a divine residence already taken up in human chests. The Colossians, in
“Not Something to Be Grasped” Messiah did not grasp. That is the engine of the whole letter. He had every right to insist on the position He held with the Father, and He chose not to insist. He had every right to refuse the cross, and He chose not to refuse it. The hymn does
“Wealth Before Walk” The order is not decorative. Paul puts wealth before walk because the walk does not survive without the wealth. A believer who skips the first three chapters and tries to live in the last three becomes a striver — a worker grinding out the instructions of chapters four through six without the
“Four Hundred and Thirty Years Too Late” The math is what keeps Paul calm in the middle of his fury. The teachers in Galatia were arguing as though the law was the older, more permanent thing and the promise was a recent addition that needed to be brought back under the law’s authority. Paul reverses
# Day 39 — The Father of All Comfort “Treasure in Clay Jars” Two images run through the letter. The first is a triumphal procession — the Roman victory parade, with priests swinging incense down the streets. Paul says we are part of that procession, and the air around us smells different because of it.
“You Are Christ’s Body” Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians 12 has two halves. The first half is for the people who feel small in the room: if the foot should say, because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body. The second half is for the people who feel big: the