Today’s Word
Peter’s Mistake (1)
And it shall happen afterward: I will pour My spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your elders shall dream dreams, your young men see visions. And even upon male slaves and slavegirls in those days will I pour My Spirit. Joel 3:1-2 Robert Alter Afterward – You are certainly…
Destiny’s Child
Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, to shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.” But the Lord of hosts revealed Himself to me, “Surely this iniquity shall…
Morning Awe
Time for some “reflection” before you trundle off to work. Camps Bay, South Africa Actually, rough-cut is still pretty spectacular.
Rough-Cut
“In the end God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 modified End – Well, of course, it doesn’t read this way. Everyone knows that Genesis 1:1 is about the beginning, not the end. But maybe we need to think of it differently. God always starts what He finishes, and in this case, He…
Redacted
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile, the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the Lord came upon him.) Ezekiel 1:2-3 NASB Came expressly – Don’t overlook the fact that these two verses are not…
See-Saw
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. Ezekiel 1:1 NASB Visons – We might have a deeper appreciation for Ezekiel’s experience of God if we realized that the verb rāʾâ…
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