Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Luke 2:14 KJV Goodwill – In his book, Windows into the Bible, Marc Turnage notes that there are two readings of the Greek texts of Luke 2:14. One variant uses the Greek word eudokai, rendering the text “on earth peace, goodwill toward men.”…
Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.” Judges 14:12 NASB Riddle – Not everything in the Scripture…
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of [a]the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 1 Kings 17:1 NASB Rain – Four points need to be understood concerning the…
“Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?” Acts 8:36 NASB What prevents me – Let me make a bold assertion. Most of the great unwashed are not Ethiopian eunuchs. You may smile to yourself, thinking that this statement is so obvious as to be comical. There aren’t a lot of eunuchs riding around today….
“And He said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:19 NASB Made you well – “Look! Look at my hands! Look at my feet! It’s gone. I’m clean.” Yitzhak jumped the ditch, throwing his arms in the air. “Praise God! Praise God!” Two men in the group began…
“Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength” Isaiah 40:31 NASB This is the first Today’s Word I wrote. It was written in 2003 and has never been published to the web. When Today’s Word started, it was the beginning of a long journey for me; a journey that has taken some…
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 2 Corinthians 12:7-8 NASB…
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 NASB Require – What is needed to fulfill the three requirements of YHVH? What must we have in order to do what…
“For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye. Deuteronomy 32:10 NASB In a desert land – Has God found…
Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame. 1 Corinthians 15:34 NASB Shame – You might find it surprising that the Greek word Paul uses for “shame” is entrope. We have a derivative of this Greek word in modern physics. Entropy is…
