Author: Dwight Clough

What can you imagine?How big can you think?God thinks bigger…Do you want to ask Him for something?Ask big because you’re dealing with a big God.Ephesians 3:20 from the Discoveries Bible Continued from yesterday …For the last two days, I’ve been talking about a new project at DwightClough.com – the Discoveries Bible.In practical terms, it takes time to work on something like this. And – even though it sounds secular, it is true – time does mean money. So I’ve been trying to figure out how, as a professional writer, I can carve out time to work on the Discoveries Bible.…

What can you imagine?How big can you think?God thinks bigger…Do you want to ask Him for something?Ask big because you’re dealing with a big God.Ephesians 3:20 from the Discoveries Bible Continued from yesterday …Do we need another Bible translation or paraphrase? No, not exactly. But I do think we need to see the Bible that we have with new eyes. That’s what I’m attempting to do with the Discoveries Bible. I want to make the meaning accessible to the reader. I pray that God will take some things that have grown stale for some of us and breathe new life…

What can you imagine?How big can you think?God thinks bigger…Do you want to ask Him for something?Ask big because you’re dealing with a big God.Ephesians 3:20 from the Discoveries Bible I want to tell you about the Discoveries Bible project. I am concerned – and have been for decades – about something I see happening in the church. When certain words are heard or read, the listener (or reader) goes into “religious neutral” – the words have been used so often that they have been deprived of any real meaning. The rich meaning that was intended is lost because we…

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. — 2 Corinthians 5:11I fear semi trucks going 70 mph. That doesn’t mean that I lie awake at night shivering with terror because I’m thinking about Kenworths and Peterbilts. But it does mean that I don’t stand out in the middle of the Interstate waiting for a truck to run me over. There’s something about 40,000 pounds of metal traveling 103 feet per second that quickly talks me into moving to the side of the road.How can we fear God, the One who loves…

But [Joseph’s] brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence. Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come close to me." — Genesis 45:3-4What did Joseph see that his brothers, in their terror, were unable to see? He saw the hand of God. Did you know that there will come a day when we will look at every event in our lives and see the hand of God? We will look at every one who has wronged us and see not the pain, but the eternal purposes of God. Joseph stood there and looked at…

… may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. — Psalm 20:1In this verse, the Lord identifies Himself as the God of Jacob. We all want protection, so we look to the same God who protected Jacob. How did God protect Jacob? He certainly did not protect him from the need to flee from his brother Esau. He didn’t prevent him from being wed to the wrong woman. He didn’t keep Laban from cheating him by changing his wages ten times. He didn’t keep Jacob’s wife, Rachel, from dying in childbirth. He didn’t keep his son Joseph from…

Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. — 2 Chronicles 33:16King Manasseh came to the place of thanksgiving the hard way. In his youth he poured himself into idolatry and injustice. On his hands was the blood of the innocent. God sent prophets to warn him, but he paid no attention. Finally, God gave him over to the king of Assyria, and he was thrown in prison. There, in his distress, with shackles on his feet, he cried out…

Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself. But God did not raise His hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank. — Exodus 24:9-11I’m struck with how casual God can be at times. This is the same God who said, "… you cannot see My face, for no one may see Me and live." Yet He invites Moses who will later disobey and strike…

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. — Revelation 6:9-11I got an…

Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope? … If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! — Job 41:1, 8I love the book of Job because it is raw and honest. I especially love chapters 38-41 where God speaks, because He speaks here with a candor that you find nowhere else in scripture.The Lord has an opportunity to address the cries and the whys of a suffering man, and He does so in a way I would never predict – never…