Today’s Word
The Hebrew Exclamation Point
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!” Psalm 133:1 Behold – Stand up. Raise your hands to heaven and shout, “Yes, God!” Now you get the idea. David puts this Hebrew word, hinneh, right at the beginning of his thought because he wants to emphasize and intensify…
Emotional Theology: Unity in Community
“And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities” Psalm 130:8 His – Your eighth grade English teacher would have circled the word in red. She would write in the margin, “number disagreement”. “Israel” is plural but “his” is singular. Did God make a grammatical mistake? Take a look at this verse in your translation…
Highway to Heaven
“but the way of the righteous is made plain” Proverbs 15:19 KJV Plain – Get out the map. This is not a word about spiritual insight. It’s a surveyor’s word. The Hebrew selulah is the word for a road that is built up above the lay of the land. It is designed for easy travel…
The Margin of Free
“Freely you have received, freely give.” Matthew 10:8 Freely – If Jesus said it, it must be Aramaic, not Greek. That drives us back to the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek word dorean. We find hinnam, “undeservedly, without cause”. You can see the word in use in 2 Samuel 24:24 and Jeremiah 22:13. Goods and…
Money Muddles
“But when he came to his senses, he said” Luke 15:17 Senses – The story of the prodigal son. We need to know the literal wording here in order to really see the picture. It is “to himself he came” (eis eauton elthon). This is a place that each of us must visit if we…
Prayerful Expectations
“and they said to her, “You are out of your mind!” Acts 12:15 Out of your mind – Did you think that the early followers of the Way were more spiritually sensitive? Did you imagine that they prayed with great belief and trust? They lived in the midst of miracles. Do you suppose that this…
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