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  • What Context?

    “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”  Deuteronomy 31:8  NIV Woman’s Day Leave you nor forsake you – Feeling discouraged today?  Some persistent problems?  Some new stress? The usual ups and downs of life?  I…

  • The Other Side of the Prophecy

    And the people will be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the youth will storm against the elder and the inferior against the honorable.  Isaiah 3:5  NASB Oppressed – Contemporary believers often turn to Isaiah 2:4 as a description of peace in Millennial Kingdom.   “And He will judge between the nations, and…

  • Celestial Mechanics

    Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, stretching out heaven like a tent curtain. Psalm 104:2 NASB Tent Curtain – Read this verse without your current Einstein cosmic concepts. Read it without the Hubble telescope, the textbooks on astrophysics or even without those glow-in-the-dark stars you attached to your youngest child’s bedroom ceiling. Read…

  • Overture

    For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. Psalm 60:1-2 [Hebrew text] NASB translation Shushan Eduth – A mikhtam is, ah, no one quite knows for sure. The…

  • In the Midst

    If two sit together and words of the Law are spoken between them, the Divine Presence rests between them. Pirke Avot 3:2 Divine Presence – Does this passage from the works of the Jewish sages sound familiar? It should. Yeshua uses the same idea when he speaks about two or three gathered together. Did you…

  • Proof Text Context

    “I will not carry out my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not mortal; in your midst (is) the Holy One.  And I will not come in wrath.” Hosea 11:9  (translation J. Dearman) For I am God – It’s possible that you’ve heard this verse expounded in its…

  • Context, Context, Context

    Let a woman learn in silence, in all subjection.  But I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.  1 Timothy 2:11-12 A Woman – The universal law of real estate is simple:  location, location, location.  There is a comparable universal law in biblical…