2009 Tax Letters
I emailed Tax Contribution Letters to 406 of you who made donations to At God’s Table in 2009 on Monday afternoon. If you did not receive this email and you believe you should have, please reply to this email and let me know.
Tidy Answers
For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His holy name. Psalm 33:21 Trust – Remember the difficulties we found in Psalm 33:22. Trying to capture the meaning of ka-asher turned into a lesson about tidy answers and worldviews. But what we may have overlooked is the parallelism of Hebrew poetry. In other…
Prophetic Profits
“Remember the law of My servant Moses, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments.” Malachi 4:4 Remember – Most of us don’t think of this verse when we think of the prophet Malachi. We think of this verse: “Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may…
Haiti Update
My friend, Scott Mandl, executive director of Christian Flights International, sends greetings to “Skip’s army.” (I had to laugh at that). He was overjoyed by the number of you who responded with aid for the Ranquitte mission. He has asked if all of you who are willing to help will please forward the website link…
Hopeful Results
Let Your lovingkindness, O YHWH, be upon us, according as we have hoped in You. Psalm 33:22 NASB According As – Check a few different English translations of this verse and you will probably come away confused. Many translations render this “even as” rather than “according as.” The Hebrew is ka-asher. It is the combination…
Mental Telepathy
“Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts. For they have not listened to My words and My law, they also rejected it.” Jeremiah 6:19 Fruit Of Their Thoughts – Why must we take every thought captive (2 Corinthians 10:5)? Why should we be held accountable for…
Prophetic Connection
“Put a horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of YHWH because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My law.” Hosea 8:1 Covenant/Law – Why could Abraham Heschel say, “A Jew without Torah is obsolete”? Heschel recognized that the covenant is directly tied to the Torah. If…
National Treasure
“for they have despised the law of YHWH, and they have not kept His statutes. Their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.” Amos 2:4 Law of YHWH – The prophet Amos lays a charge at the feet of the nation of Israel. It is not simply a declaration of the guilt of…
Tactics, Not Strategy
And you shall become a kingdom of priests for Me, a holy nation. Exodus 19:6 Kingdom of Priests – God chose Israel before He gave them the commandments. He elected Abram before he became Abraham and before he knew anything about God’s plan. He picked Isaac, not Ishmael. He blessed Jacob, not Esau. God chooses…
Combination Punch
Of David, a contemplation. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom YHWH does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Psalm 32:1-2 Forgiven/Covered/Does Not Charge/No Guile – Now that we see the parallelism in David’s maskil, we must draw the connecting…
