“YHWH, Elohey Yisrael, there is none like You, Elohim, in the heavens or in the earth, keeping covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.” 2 Chronicles 6:14 (Darby) Keeping Covenant – Who keeps promises these days? Not me. I’ve broken quite a few in my time. I suspect…
This year, 2011, will be my ninth year of writing a daily Today’s Word. In about two months, I will write the 3000th edition. During that time, there has been only one repeated Today’s Word posted on the web site. It feels good to have 2,999 different looks at Scripture. Writing this has become a permanent…
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest YHWH see and it be evil in His eyes, and He turn away His wrath from him. Proverbs 24:17-18 (Darby modified) Not – It’s a new year. This year the wicked will get what they deserve. This…
Between November 29 and December 25, I shipped more than 200 books to readers. If you ordered BEFORE December 23 and you have not received your order IN THE UNITED STATES, then I need to know. Several people have had problems with orders due to the general mismanagement of the post office. So far I…
But wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 Peaceable – OK, let’s think about this. “Peaceable?” We live in a world of greater and greater threat and conflict. In case you weren’t paying attention, tensions around the globe are escalating as…
Brevard S. Childs was perhaps the most influential thinker in the development of canonical theology in the last several decades. His work, Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments, presents a thorough analysis of the forces that led to the formulation of a canonical theological position. In this series of lectures and comments of…
But wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. James 3:17 Pure – Want peace in your life? Want gentleness, mercy and integrity? Want clear reason and satisfying production? Then start with hagnos (Greek for pure). Of course, it’s important to know what “pure”…
“I will give them one heart and one way of life, to reverence me at all times, for their own good and the good of their children after them.” Jeremiah 32:39 One Way Of Life – The old beliefs die hard. Tradition is difficult to revise. Comfortable conclusions resist correction. But a love of the…
“And you, lie down on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. The number of the days that you shall lie down on it, you shall bear their iniquity.” Ezekiel 4:4 (translation: A. Heschel) Bear – Who will respond to the call of the Lord? “Here I am,”…
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