Genesis 21:33, “And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.” I was reading a passage in the Talmud this morning in Sotah 10a-b. We read in Genesis 21:33 that Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba. The word grove is ‘eshel which is
Genesis 21:9, 12: “And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. (12) And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for
Matthew 10:32-33 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. I remember when I was twelve years old I accepted Jesus as my own
II Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Creature? Who wants to be a creature? The Greek word used is ktisis which is creation or something founded by nothing. That sounds a little extreme. Perhaps Paul
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Exodus 33:3: “For I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people: Lest I consume thee in the way.” The children of Israel were two and one half months into their journey to the Promised Land (Exodus 16:1). All the food they packed away at the beginning
Luke 16:22, “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried.” Psalms 35:13, “But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine
Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia which borders Washington D.C., I took a room in a house with three other borders. One was an engineer working on the new rapid transit system for Washington, D.C., the other work for
Genesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came
Psalms 147:1: “Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant and praise is comely.” Some people tend to think that worship only takes place with music. Actually, everything that takes place during a church service is worship. But we tend to break down our
