- Context? Who needs context?
- The proof text.
- Prophetic interpretation: “God told me it means this!”*
- To whom are the scriptures written? It’s kinda important.
- Ge 31.48-49: The mizpah covenant.
- Ge 22.12: Yahweh-Yireh: God sees us. (And provides… but that’s a different idea.)
- Ex 14.14: “The Lord will fight for you.” Or not.
- Nu 24.17: The star coming out of Jacob.*
- Dt 5.11: Taking the Lord’s name in vain.
- Dt 28.23: When the heavens are brass?
- Js 1.9: Being strong and courageous.
- 2Ki 2.9-10: Elisha’s double portion.
- 1Ch 16.22: Touch not the Lord’s anointed.
- 2Ch 7.14: “If my people pray, I’ll heal their land.”
- Jb 4-5: Quoting Job’s friends.
- Ps 14.1: ‘The fool says there’s no God around.”
- Ps 46.5: “God is within her; she shall not fall.”
- Ps 46.10: “Be still and know that I am God.”
- Ps 105.15: Touch not the Lord’s anointed.
- Pr 4.23: Guard your heart.
- Pr 22.6: “Train up a child…”
- Pr 29.18: Where there’s no vision. (It’s not your vision.)
- Ps 53.1: ‘The fool says there’s no God around.”
- Is 14.12-15: Lucifer: The myth the devil used to be a big deal.
- Is 40.31: Those who wait on the Lord.
- Is 50.6: Plucking Jesus’s beard. Or not.
- Is 54.16: “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.”
- Is 55.11: Can God’s word “return void”?
- Jr 1.5: “Before I formed you in the womb…”
- Jr 29.11: God knows the plans he has for you.
- Ek 37.1-10: Dem bones.
- Ho 11.1: “Out of Egypt I called my Son.”*
- Zc 12: Zechariah’s prophecy “about the Israel-Hamas War.”
- Ml 3.8-12: Tithing: Enjoying one’s firstfruits with God.*
- Mt 6.33: “Seek ye first”: Pursuing wealth via pursuing God’s kingdom.
- Mt 7.1: Judge not. Or judge. Depends on the context.
- Mt 16.18: “The gates of hell”: Just how won’t they prevail?
- Mt 18.20: When two or three gather in Jesus’s name.
- Mt 25.40: “The least of these my brethren”—as we define brethren.
- Mt 26.11: The poor you will always have with you. So screw ’em.
- Mk 7.19: No, Jesus didn’t declare all foods clean.
- Lk 11.42: Tithing: Enjoying one’s firstfruits with God.*
- Jn 3.11: Receiving not our witness.*
- Jn 4.48: The first time Jesus cured anyone.*
- Jn 8.32: “The truth will set you free.”
- Jn 12.32: Lifting Jesus up—in worship, or in crucifixion?
- Jn 15.13: “Lay down your life” means what now?
- Ro 3.23: “All have sinned”—and will keep on sinning? God forbid.
- Ro 8.28: “God makes all things work together for our good.”
- 1Co 10.13: “God will never give you more than you can handle.”
- 1Co 13.7-13: When supernatural gifts will no longer be needed.*
- 2Co 12.6-10: Praying about thorns in the flesh.*
- Ga 6.7: “God will not be mocked.”
- Ep 2.8: Saved to do good.*
- Ep 4.11-12: The fivefold ministry. Or is it fourfold? Sevenfold?
- Ep 5.21: Submission. It’s not domination.
- Pp 3.13-14: Forgetting the past.
- 1Th 5.22: The appearance of evil.
- 2Th 3.10: “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
- 1Ti 2.12: “Woman, be silent!”
- He 1.2: “But in these last days”… prophecy stopped?
- He 12.1: The cloud of witnesses.
- Jm 4.2: “You have not because you ask not.”
- Jm 5.15: The prayer of faith will raise him up.*
- 1Jn 2.27: Needing not that any man teach you.*
- Rv 3.15-16: Lukewarm Christians.
- Rv 3.20: “I stand at the door and knock.”