Today’s Word

Remember This

Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, and do not punish me in Your burning anger. Psalm 38:1  NASB Punish – Have you ever prayed a prayer like this?  Have you reached the point, long after the Lord has redeemed you, long after you recognize your sinful condition and your desperate need for grace, where…
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The Shining Path

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.  Psalm 119:105  NIV Light – How about some reflective history.  Let me, please, make a comment about what it’s like to write these (now) 8000+ word studies. “Today’s Word” is not your standard approach to Scripture.  Yes, the theology is conservative and…
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Eternal Attributes

The Lord’s acts of mercy indeed do not end, for His compassions do not fail.  They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23  NASB Acts of mercy – This is one of those cases where we must see the Hebrew in order to understand the impact of the verse.  “Acts of mercy” just doesn’t cut it.  We…
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An Act of Creation

and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.  Ephesians 4:24  NASB Put on the new self – Paul is an orthodox Jewish thinker.  Among other things, that means his theology is rooted in the Tanakh, interpreted by the rabbinic traditions.  When he writes, even…
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The Oldest App

Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.  Deuteronomy 4:2  NIV Add/ Subtract – Let’s suppose that you take Moses’ command very seriously.  You decide not to add a single thing to his instructions, and, of course, not to subtract anything from…
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The Law of the Kingdom

They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”  Jeremiah 31:34  NASB They will all know Me – Yeshua…
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