Prayer

Our Father, Our King, You are our only hope.  In times for great distress, You lift us up.  In times of joy, You are our celebration.  We rejoice in You, O Lord, for You never fail.  You have lead us in paths of righteousness.  Your protection hovers over us.  You give us peace.  We praise…

A Prayer for Us Today

Our Father, our King, for You are King of the universe and we are your grateful subjects, we give you our praise. You have redeemed us. You have brought us out and called us forth. You are unfailing in mercy, unimpeachable in justice, unrivaled in compassion, unfaltering in love, unending in goodness and unequal in…

Need Help from the Today’s Word Community?

Hey folks, Patrick the Tech Geek here.  On Saturday, Skip wrote the post Community Issues saying, Recently some very distressing things have been happening to members of our group, but unless you read all the comments, you probably would not be aware of them simply because they are attached to particular daily posts.  Patrick recognized…

Calling ‘Ezer Contributors

A few weeks ago I made an appeal for readers who have been affected by the concept of the woman as ‘ezer to write their stories (or insights) and send them to me for the book I am writing.  Several of you responded, saying that you would be willing to contribute.  NOW IS THE TIME….

A Year on the Ash Heap

A Year on the Ash Heap: Travels with Job The book of Job is considered the oldest book of the Bible. With this in mind, the story becomes even more challenging. After all, if this account is the oldest book, then it follows that all of the other stories, directions, prophetic utterances and guidance was…

The Church

Following the excellent post by Barry Jenkins (see his comment under the Today’s Word “Paradigm Shift”), I thought it might be useful to put back up an article that I posted on the old web site.  Here it is: The Church Today Christians stand at a significant crossroads in spiritual growth. On the one hand,…

Community Issues

Hi everyone. This is a special post to all the members of the community.  Recently some very distressing things have been happening to members of our group, but unless you read all the comments, you probably would not be aware of them simply because they are attached to particular daily posts.  Patrick recognized this problem…

Proclaimer

Long before the term “prophet” took on its contemporary meaning of predicting the future, the Greek term prophetes has a very different meaning. In fact, until the Christian era after apostles refocused the meaning, it did not embody the concept of peering into the future at all. Prophetes has its roots in the Greek culture…