Today’s Word
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…
The Biblical Surrogate
When brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall have relations with her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. Deuteronomy 25:5 NASB The duty – We…
Voluntary Absence
My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest. Psalm 22:2 NASB Cry out – Who’s responsible? That’s what we want to know. If I’m crying out day and night, if I feel the desperate emptiness of God’s absence, if I’m fixated on His reply,…
The Summons
My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest. Psalm 22:2 NASB Cry out – Anthony Bloom’s comment is frightening: “ . . . it is very important to remember that prayer is an encounter and a relationship, a relationship which is deep, and this…
Anthony Bloom
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NASB To pray – We’ve heard it before. “A man’s prayer is answered when he stakes his life on it.” …
Down Is Up
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, when He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NASB To pray – This might seem strange to say, but prayer is my most difficult exercise. Even when I…
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