Silent Running

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.  Genesis 1:3  NASB Let there be – I suppose this is a bit better than Paul McCartney’s version (“Let It Be”), but it still sends us in the wrong direction.  The English suggests that God was involved in some kind of command bringing light into…

Backing Up

And all the people were watching and hearing the thunder and the lightning flashes, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it all, they trembled and stood at a distance.  Exodus 20:18  NASB At a distance – It’s a nice translation but it doesn’t really tell us what happened.  In order…

Prophetic Hallucinations

And within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.  Each of them had four faces and four wings.  Ezekiel 1:5-6 NASB Human form – With the verse, Ezekiel begins to share his visions.  Commentators and end-times prognosticators have had a field day with Ezekiel’s descriptions.  Maybe that’s because they…

Sacrificial Lambs

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

Keeping Them Down

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

Neighborly

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

Emphatic Duplication

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

13.3% X 2

casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.   1 Pet 5:7  NASB (1995) Anxiety – Occasionally I write something that is so essential to my own well-being that I think someone else must have been the author.  This edition of Today’s Word first appeared on 11 March of this year, but now…

Blood Guilt

So you shall not defile the land in which you live; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.  Numbers 35:33 NASB Defiles – ḥānēp.  That should be a word added to your…

Jude’s Law

to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.  Jude 1:25  NIV Only – Jude wrote this letter toward the end of the first century CE.  By then Messianic assemblies were established in many cities of the Mediterranean world.  Jude’s language shows…