AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT On September 1, 2019, the blog section of At God’s Table will be closed. Comments will no longer be possible. However, TODAY’S WORD will NOT end. I will continue to write each day except Shabbat, but the ability for you to comment will cease. If you wish to retain any comments from the…
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5 NASB Knowing good and evil – Read the text again. What does the serpent claim will happen? Sometimes we think that the serpent offers eternal life (“You will be like God”), but that…
I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. Genesis 17:7 NASB You and your descendants– Are you ready? Are you ready to really deal with the implications of God’s covenant promise to Abraham? Oh, I’m sure you think that…
Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.” Deuteronomy 1:22 NASB All of you – Who initiates sending the spies? According to Deuteronomy,…
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:27 ESV Religion– In recent conversation a young man expressed his determination for spiritual truth in this way: “When I rely on the Holy Spirit to lead me to the truth, I know…
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Romans 7:12 NASB Holy– I wonder how long it will take before Christianity recognizes that its caricature of the Jewish Torah is a gross error. Oh, I can probably answer that. Forever! Why? Because the existence of Christianity depends on an implicit anti-Semitism. Lloyd Gaston made…
Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” Genesis 32:26a NASB Dawn– There are a lot of strange verses in the story of Jacob’s encounter with the “man” at the brook Jabbok. If you’ve read Crossing,[1]then you know just how odd the story really is. Recently I read a comment by Michael Wyschogrod that provides…
For the last ten days I have been in Jakarta with the “Children Under the Bridge” project. I was joined by two readers from Ohio and two from South Africa. The experience was transforming for all of us. Usually updates about this project are sent only to those who help support it, but today I…
