Today’s Word
Yeshua and the Prophet
“He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.” John 12:25 Hates – In Greek, the root is miseo. It usually implies active ill will toward someone or something. It is the opposite of agapao (to love, cf. Matthew 5:43). This is…
Biblical Psychology
“And you shall remember there your ways and all your deeds by which you have been defiled in them. And you will hate yourselves to your faces for all your evils which you have done.” Ezekiel 20:43 Hate – In a world governed by mantras of self-esteem, Ezekiel would probably be fired. Actually, he was. …
Political Idolatry
For you have said in your heart, “I will go up to the heavens. I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit in the mount of meeting, in the side of the north. I will rise over the heights of the clouds; I will be compared to the Most…
Disaster Relief
Though the fig-tree shall not blossom and the fruit is not on the vines, the work of the olive fails and the fields make no food; the flock is cut off from the fold and no herd is in the stalls, yet I will exult in YHWH, I will rejoice in the God of my…
Driftin’ Blues
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Acts 16:30 Do – “The ordinary believer is not necessarily someone who has made a major decision, but rather someone who continues the tradition of his ancestors, perhaps by merely drifting or wandering about. . . . The moral argument against such a person is that he…
A Revelation of Worship
“For you shall not worship any other god, for YHWH, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God” Exodus 34:14 Worship – In order to avoid idolatry, we must know what it means to worship. This might seem like a fairly simple thing, but we soon discover that it isn’t. One problem is our rationality…
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