Today’s Word

Accumulation

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,  Philippians 3:13b  NIV Forgetting what is behind – Isn’t it nice to know that Paul was so focused, so spiritual, that he could forget everything that was in the past and just concentrate on what would be in the future?  Don’t you wish you had such…
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A Moral Blow

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Okay, so we’re past the scandalous nature of this event.  We think of it religiously as if it’s about inequity, and, of course, ultimately, about the…
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Half of the Story

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.”  Genesis 38:16a  NIV Sleep with you – Of course, the Hebrew doesn’t use our modern circumlocution.  The Hebrew text reads, “let me come in to you,” perhaps a bit too graphic for our…
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What Goes Around

“May the Lord reward your work, and may your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”  Ruth 2:12  NASB Reward – It’s such a shame that the translation of this Hebrew word into English leaves us without all the deep connections it should imply.  Take a look…
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