Today’s Word
Dries up
“rejoicing dries up from the sons of men.” Joel 1:12 Dries up – Yesterday I received a newsletter on the plight of people in Haiti. It began with this verse from Joel. Today the newspaper headlines carried the story of more killing and turmoil in that country. A few weeks ago I wrote about Cite…
Condemnation
“Therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 Condemnation – God loves you and wants to forgive you. But watch out! As soon as you “get saved”, then God turns into the moral policeman who beats you up over every single thing you do wrong. Is that how you…
Conformed
“and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,” Romans 12:2 Conformed– EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. I need to make a correction. In literary circles its called errata. But in spiritual circles it’s called “sin”. Conformity to this world is sin in God’s view. What’s…
Fasten
“I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me.” Psalm 101:3 We have a big field behind our home. It used to be full of underbrush and weeds. Whenever we walked in that field, our clothes would be…
Worthless
“I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me.” Psalm 101:3 We know what “worthless” means. It means “good for nothing, garbage, trash.” Of course, in these days of recycling, garbage and trash might actually be worth something. …
Gracious
2 “Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;” Exodus 34:6 A few days ago we looked at another form of this word (chanan). Have you been gathering chicks under your Hebrew wings? Today we…
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