“Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts.” Proverbs 8:34 NASB Blessed – Chapter 8 of Proverbs is the personification of Wisdom as feminine divinity. It does not mean that there is a divine female. We’ll leave that to the invention of the Virgin Mary some…
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. Matthew 7:25 ESV Did not fall – You want your faith to stand, right? You want it built on the solid rock, able to weather…
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; Philippians 3:10 NASB Know– Do you struggle with certainty? Do you want to know for sure what to believe and what not to believe? Are you plagued with the discovery that what you used to think was absolutely true doesn’t…
In the beginning . . . Genesis 1:1 NASB Beginning – Of course, this isn’t the real beginning. It isn’t even the beginning of all of these investigations called “Today’s Word.” But it is a beginning, and with that in mind, a few things must be said. Beginnings happen all the time. Every day is…
“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.” Jeremiah 6:14 NASB Saying – The first stage in the collapse of a civilization is the intelligentsia of the culture questioning the values and rituals that established the identity of the civilization. In this stage, the intellectuals of…
Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully. 2 Kings 12:15 NASB Dealt faithfully – Perhaps you’ve noticed some very odd things about the Hebrew community of Torah; things that seem unimaginable in our…
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Psalm 139:17-18 ESV Count – Certainty is one of the great problems of life. What can we know for sure? …
Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 Dimly – Can you adjust your vision? Are you able to look at the world through a different lens? In order to…
