Today’s Word
Hide and Seek
But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24 NASB Lost – There are four senses to the Greek term apóllymi: to destroy or kill, to suffer loss or to lose, to perish, and to be lost. Most of the time the word is used in…
Heresy Number 2* (this will take some more time)
Do your duty to the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to [a]keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn, 1 Kings 2:3 NASB What is written – Yesterday, we learned that…
The Minds of God
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Isaiah 1:18a KJV Reason – Despite the later translation corrections of this Hebrew verb (yākaḥ rendered in the NASB as “debate” and in the NIV as “settle”), most believers of a certain age recall this verse in its King James vernacular, “let us reasontogether.” We won’t…
No Aspirins, Please
My voice to God—let me cry out. My voice to God—and hearken to me. In the day of my straits I sought the Master. My eye flows at night, it will not stop. I refused to be consoled. Psalm 77:2-3 (Hebrew Bible) Robert Alter Refused – “You’ll feel better in the morning.” “This too will…
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