Today’s Word

Going Deeper (1)

Then the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went ahead of them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued to blow the trumpets.  Joshua 6:13  NASB They continued to – According…
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Overload

You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.  Why then did You bring me out of the womb?  If only I had died and no eye had seen me!  I should have been as though I had not been, brought from womb to tomb.  Job 10:17-19 …
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“And in the End”

A good name is better than fragrant oil, and the day of death than the day of birth. Ecclesiastes 7: 1 JPS Day of death – “Many individuals report that they rarely think of their own death but are obsessed with the idea, and the terror, of transiency.  Every pleasant moment is corroded by the…
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You’ll Never Know

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.  Ecclesiastes 3:11  NASB Without the possibility – The highlighted phrase in this verse is a translator’s addition.  Robert Alter’s translation reads: “Everything…
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Gift of the Giver (5)

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;  moreover, that every person who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—this is the gift of God.  Ecclesiastes 3:12-13  NASB Gift of God – Just one last thing to add—fulfillment.  Qohelet (the Teacher) is the ultimate…
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Gift of the Giver (4)

So God created mankind in his own image,  in the image of God he created them;  male and female he created them.  Genesis 1:27  NIV Male and female – A few weeks ago we explored this verse for its latent connection to ḥesed.  Since we’ve just looked at the relationship between ḥesed, šāmar, and pāqad, determining that these words are…
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