Today’s Word

Idolatry in Action

He who gives vent to anger commits as grave a sin as though he worshipped strange gods.  Tractate Shabbat 105b Anger – Referring to Job 18:4, Luzzatto follows the Sages by connecting anger with idolatry.  We don’t usually think like this, but perhaps we should.  Stone’s commentary on Luzzatto shows us why: “[Anger] is the…
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Identity Documents

So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives, and placed them outside the camp of Israel.  Joshua 6:23  NASB Young men – Apparently the author of the book of Joshua can’t really make up…
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“The Departed” – Rewind

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,  Ephesians 4:1-2  NASB 1995 Worthy – Jack Nicholson delivered a memorable line in the movie The Departed. …
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The Usual

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.  2 Timothy 4:2  NASB The word – A Christian website sent me a story about instructing pastors.  The elder wrote: I thought about Paul’s instruction to the young preacher, Timothy, as he spoke in 2 Timothy 4:2 (NASB) “preach the word;…
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The Nuclear Option

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; I will not endure one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart.  Psalm 101:5  NASB Destroy – This psalm makes an incredible claim.  God will totally eliminate those who slander others in secret.  It’s hard to miss the audacity of this statement.  The Hebrew verb, ṣāmat, used…
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