Today’s Word
Designated Representative
So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 NASB Image – Emphasis! Typically Hebraic, a repeated word acts as an exclamation in a language without punctuation. So the verse repeats ṣelem (image) in order to emphasize the special quality of this…
Why Keep Going?
Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 NASB Upward call – Don’t you think Paul’s justification for all this work is a bit strange? “Upward call”? Now what…
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 NASB Lies behind/ lies ahead – Making it Greek. Yes, that’s what Paul does when he writes to the…
586 BCE (3)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV Faithfulness – Last on the list; first in action. ʾĕmûnâ. If raḥûm is the feeling that God has for His people, that same feeling a pregnant woman has for her unborn child, then ʾĕmûnâ is the action that results from that bond. …
586 BCE (2)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV Mercies – As we discovered, God’s ḥesed is without an end. And because it never comes to an end, because God never gives up on His promise, other things follow. One of those other things is rāḥam, the root of the…
586 BCE (1)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV Never ceases – Lamentations! Five poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews. Exile, abuse, starvation, humiliation, slaughter—all the usual after defeat in war. But this time, with God’s endorsement. How? How can it be…
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