Today’s Word

Alter-ations

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.  Genesis 22:17  NASB Seed – The monumental work of Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible reveals just how inadequate…
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Boiled Eggs

“The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in the loftiness of your dwelling place, who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’”  Obadiah 3 Arrogance of your heart – What is arrogance?  Most of us have some cognitive picture about this word.  We…
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Jeremiah’s Desperado

I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.  Jeremiah 24:7  NASB Return – Hauser makes me cry for the passion of music.  The Eagles make me cry for the pathos of living. …
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Obadiah on Wide Screen

The vision of Obadiah.  Obadiah 1 NASB Vision – Have you read Obadiah?  I wouldn’t be surprised if you said, “No.”  It’s such a short book that it is often skipped.  After all, what can a prophet say in just 21 verses?  Before we discover how universal Obadiah really is, it’s worth examining the opening…
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Your Unfinished Song

Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, “I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; the horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.”  Exodus 15:1  NASB Sang – In 2014 we looked at the odd grammar of this verse.  The rabbis noticed that…
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