Month: August 2011

  • The Order of Rest

    And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He has made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made.  Genesis 2:2-3 …

  • Blind in Babylon

    “See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,”  Debarim 30:15  (ISR) Set before you – The poets of Babylon understood what it was like to live in a world where the gods were silent. “Although I am constantly looking for help, no one takes me by the hand. When…

  • FACEBOOK for us

    Well, we are going social media.  So I need your help with this.  Please go to this link by clicking here and then LIKE the page (click on the LIKE icon).  This will help At God’s Table get going with the social media world and bring the message to anyone that you have in your…

  • Alien Righteousness

    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Parazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, to do His task, His unusual task, and to work His work, His extraordinary work.  Isaiah 28:21  NASB To work His work – “As for me and my house.”  Joshua’s often-quoted declaration makes his…

  • Peter’s Big Number

    “So shall My heavenly Father also do to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”  Matthew 18:35  NASB Not forgive – Does God forgive everything?  Before you say, “Of course!” you may wish to read this parable one more time.  It is the parable of the slave who owed…

  • Window Shopping

    When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,  2 Samuel 24:11  NASB Seer – Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear?  Not everyone is so equipped.  To hear what God is saying requires more than processing audio signals.  Our equipment must…

  • The Politics of Jesus

    Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  Matthew 18:4  NASB Humbles – The Kingdom is for children.    We are quick to acknowledge that we need the humility and attitude of a child in order to enter into the Kingdom.  But too often we fail to read…

  • Hit Me with Your Best Shot

    We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the times of old;  Psalm 44:2  (Hebrew World Translation) You performed – Where is God when we need Him?  That seems to be the theme of this psalm.  If you read a bit further,…

  • Passion Fruit

    and there was not a man to till the ground  Genesis 2:5  (Hebrew World translation) To till – There is no difference between sacred and secular.  Better read that again since nearly everything about our culture is based on separating sacred and secular.  We have church and state, spiritual and carnal, righteous and wicked and…