Today’s Word
DEA
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39 NASB Not as I will – DEA. No, not the Drug Enforcement Agency. For this community, DEA is Delayed Emotional Awareness. …
Shade Boys – Rewind
For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes. Jeremiah 31:25 NASB Languishes – Today let’s start at the end. Why? Because that’s where we might be—at the end. At the end of ourselves. At the end of trying to please Him. At the end of the daily discipline. At the end of…
Translation Evolution
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. Matthew 3:15 King James Version Suffer – No one doubts that living languages evolve. Words that used to mean one thing come to mean something else. “Gay” is a good…
Missing Words
There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed [b]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 2 Samuel 21:19 NASB Killed Goliath – Read it carefully. Okay, now answer the question, “Who killed Goliath?” Translators of the NASB provide a footnote to this verse…
The Other Side of the Prophecy
And the people will be oppressed, each one by another, and each one by his neighbor; the youth will storm against the elder and the inferior against the honorable. Isaiah 3:5 NASB Oppressed – Contemporary believers often turn to Isaiah 2:4 as a description of peace in Millennial Kingdom. “And He will judge between the nations, and…
Unbound
For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert. Luke 8:29 NASB Seized – What if the story of the demoniac isn’t about demon possession? What if it’s about an ancient…
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