Today’s Word

A Theology of the Blues

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.  Psalm 96:1  NASB New song– For a long time I’ve known that the Blues reach into my soul.  I find myself among those sad refrains, those struggling lyrics.  Give me Clapton, B.B., Stevie Ray, Ronnie Earl, Aretha, Robert Cray, and Kenny Wayne any day.  Oh,…
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Political Correction

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”  Mark 11:17  NASB Robbers’ – Rome did not crucify men for theft.  That means that the two men on either side of Yeshua on the cross were not…
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Forced Redemption

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.Deuteronomy 4:20  NASB Brought you out– In a parallel passage, God’s act of redemption is described in Moses’ final speech with the Hebrew word qereb (Deut 4:34).  In that description, Moses recalls the astounding redemptive act as…
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The Other Commandment

but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled,  Titus 1:8 NASB Hospitable– Can you express the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself in oneword?  Paul can.  That word is philoxenos.  OK, it’s really two Greek words combined into one, but if you look carefully you can see why Paul fuses these together.  The first…
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