If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. Proverbs 25:21-22 Will reward – Does this translation make sense to you? Is God promising to give you a reward…
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. Proverbs 25:21-22 NASB Burning coals – The Hebrew word gahelet literally describes the burning coals used to ignite wood for…
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If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. Proverbs 25:21-22 NASB Your enemy – “Fight fire with fire.” That’s the common point of view. What someone dishes out…
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 13:34 NASB New – How important it is to remember that Yeshua didn’t speak these words in Greek! In Hebrew, the word he used is hadash, the same word used…
Today I got a request from one of our community. His wife is demanding a divorce without biblical grounds (from Matthew). He does not want this and is trying to work through it. There are children. He has asked for prayer about the up-coming legal confrontation. Yeshua makes it very clear that marriage is glued…
“And a second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Matthew 22:39 NASB Love – We all know that this Greek word is agapao. Agape love is the standard of Christian concern. We also recognize that it is self-sacrificing love, based not on what I might receive from another but solely on…
“but the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” Genesis 3:3 NASB Die – We need to ask some questions. They’re not easy questions to ask – and they are even harder to answer. …
