WORD STUDY – BINDING – קרה Psalms 25:3: “Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.” This is really curious. “Let none that wait on thee be ashamed.” What is this waiting business. Just what are these individuals waiting for? Some translations say: “Let none that
WORD STUDY – CREATING A PASSION בעיר Song of Solomon 3:3, “The watchmen that go about the city found me: Saw ye him who my soul loveth?” “Ich bin ein Berliner” John F. Kennedy, June 26. 1963. Translation, “I am a jelly filled donut.” There is an urban legend that popped up a number
WORD STUDY – WHAT IS GOOD? Micah 6:8: “He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” It is what is not said in this verse that intrigues me more than what
WORD STUDY – HOBBLING A CAMEL – רכס Psalms 31:20: “You will hide them in the secret place of your presence, from the pride of man. God is promising to protect us or our goodness from the pride of man. Pride of man does not sound like too much of a threat. Why would we
WORD STUDY – CONTINUALLY EAT (ARAMAIC) Psalms 53:4: “Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread: they have not called upon God.” John 6:53: “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink
WORD STUDY – LIVING WATERS John 4:10: “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink;’ you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.” Genesis 26:19: “And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley
WORD STUDY – AN IRRITANT (ARAMAIC) Luke 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” I got into a conversation with one of my passengers on my disability bus today.
WORD STUDY – WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I Kings 19:9-10: “The Word of the Lord (came) to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?” And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown thine
WORD STUDY – ALTOGETHER VAIN “Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” I was reading something interesting in the Talmud this morning in Baba Bathra 15a Although the Talmud did not exist during the time of Jesus it did exist in oral tradition and the Tradition
WORD STUDY – STAYED ON HIM Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trust in you.” The other day I had Old Ben on my disability bus. Old Ben is well into his 80’s and when he got on I had my IPOD queued to
