Darkened Glass Reflections

Category: Bible meditations

Ascension, Visitation, Pentecost: A Pro-Life Perspective

This article is based on a homily I shared yesterday at my church’s monthly Liturgy for the Preborn outside Planned Parenthood in Hempstead, NY. Since the feasts of Ascension, Visitation, and Pentecost were occurring close together, it provided an opportunity to reflect on how these three events in the life of Christ and the Church…

June 2, 2019
Taste, See, and Sing! Loving and Craving God’s Word

God gives us His law, precepts, rules, and commandments, to show us how to live. He offers His promises. He gives us His testimonies, which prove that He is faithful and able to fulfill those promises. Do I read the Bible out of love, eagerness, or obligation?

May 27, 2019
The Spirit of Truth in the Life of the Believer

The Holy Spirit will speak to us as a reflection of His nature. He is the Spirit of Truth (John 14:16–17; 16:13). This is who He is. His very essence is truth. God’s Word is true because the Spirit of Truth inspired it and illuminates it to us.

May 19, 2019
The Spirit of Truth and Scripture Memorization

The Holy Spirit brings the teachings of Jesus to a disciple’s memory. Meditating on and memorizing Scripture will help us recognize God’s Word when we need it.

May 12, 2019
The Spirit of Truth and the Necessity of Scripture

We cannot know God’s will without the Bible. We also cannot know it without the wisdom that the Holy Spirit gives. The two go hand in hand. We must rely on the Holy Spirit for wisdom, but He will use the Bible to impart wisdom to us, and He expects us to use the Bible…

May 5, 2019
The First Easter Sermons: The Central Theme of the Bible

On the first Easter night, Jesus summarized the Old Testament prophecies about Himself and the Gospel His disciples would preach.

April 20, 2019
Read, Meditate, Delight, Obey: III. How to Read and Meditate on God’s Word

In this post, I offer some suggestions for reading the Bible daily and applying it to our lives.

April 14, 2019
Read, Meditate, Delight, Obey: II. Rightly Handling God’s Word

In our last post, I mentioned some translation issues with 2 Timothy 2:15. Let us look at that entire passage: “Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,…

April 12, 2019
Read, Meditate, Delight, Obey: I. Meditating on God’s Word

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success” (Joshua 1:8; all Scripture…

April 8, 2019
Scripture and Tradition

This post looks a little more closely at the relationship between Scripture and tradition. Many Christians reject tradition entirely, claiming to rely only on the Bible. A wiser position may be to see how the Holy Spirit has guided previous generations of Christians to interpret Scripture.

March 17, 2019