Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

Sunday
Nov032024

Sunday's Hymn: I Will Call Upon the Lord

 

 

 

 

 

I will call upon the Lord 
Who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.

Refrain
The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock
And let the God of my salvation be exalted!
The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock
And let the God of my salvation be exalted!

I will look upon the Lord;
He is all my righteousness;
He will make his face to shine on me.

I will wait upon the Lord;
He will fill me with new strength;
I will fly with wings like an eagle.
 
Michael O’Shields
Wednesday
Oct302024

Theological Term of the Week: Genealogy

genealogy

A list of ancestors; a line of descent traced from an ancestor.

  • Jesus’s genealogy found in Matthew:

    [1] The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

    [2] Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, [3] and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, [4] and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, [5] and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, [6] and Jesse the father of David the king.

    And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, [7] and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, [8] and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, [9] and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, [10] and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, [11] and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

    [12] And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, [13] and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, [14] and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, [15] and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, [16] and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

    [17] So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations. (Matthew 1:1-17 ESV)

  • From Literary Study Bible, page 1889:
    The genealogies of the Bible serve as many as five purposes: they reflect the interest of biblical cultures in family and individual origins or roots; they express the continuity of generations (for either good or evil); they show the importance God places on individuals (named individuality is important in the genealogies); they root biblical faith in space-time history; they embody theological meaning (as, for example, in the genealogies that trace the messianic line).

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Learn more:

  1. Got Questions: What is the relevance of the genealogies in the Bible?
  2. James Bejon: The Bible’s Family Trees
  3. Mike Leake: Why Should We Bother to Read Biblical Genealogies?
  4. The Bible Project: Jesus and Genealogies
  5. Guy Richard: What’s in a Genealogy?
  6. T. Desmond Alexander: The Royal Genealogy of Jesus

 

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Sunday
Oct272024

Sunday Hymn: We Will Understand It Better By and By

 

 

  

 

We are tossed and driv’n
On the rest­less sea of time;
Somber skies and howl­ing tem­pests
Oft suc­ceed a bright sun­shine;
In that land of per­fect day,
When the mists have rolled away,
We will un­der­stand it bet­ter by and by.

Refrain

By and by, when the morn­ing comes,
When the saints of God are ga­thered home,
We’ll tell the sto­ry how we’ve ov­er­come,
For we’ll un­der­stand it bet­ter by and by.

We are oft­en des­ti­tute
Of the things that life de­mands,
Want of food and want of shel­ter,
Thirsty hills and bar­ren lands;
We are trust­ing in the Lord,
And ac­cord­ing to God’s Word,
We will un­der­stand it bet­ter by and by.

Trials dark on ev­ery hand,
And we can­not un­der­stand
All the ways that God could lead us
To that bless­èd pro­mised land;
But He guides us with His eye,
And we’ll fol­low till we die,
For we’ll un­der­stand it bet­ter by and by.

Temptations, hid­den snares
Often take us un­awares,
And our hearts are made to bleed
For a thought­less word or deed;
And we won­der why the test
When we try to do our best,
But we’ll un­der­stand it bet­ter by and by.

Charles Tindley