• פ WORD STUDY – A COTTAGE IN A VINEYARD Isaiah 1:8: “And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.” This passage caught my attention because I am reading this as I eat my cucumber salad. Otherwise it would

  • WORD STUDY – LIGHT UP  פאל Isaiah 49:3: “and said unto me, ‘You are my servant, O’ Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’ ” God is saying that we are his servants. The word servant is Hebrew is ‘aved. Aved has a very broad use in the Hebrew. In its Semitic root it has

  • WORD STUDY – THE RAINBOW – קושׁ Genesis 9:16; “And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.” I know I have done a couple studies on rainbows in

  •   Word Study: Heals All Ps 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; I am gradually making a clean breast of it all and telling people I have Asperger’s Syndrome. Asperger’s is a form of Autism, on the higher spectrum of Autism where you are functional. But still I have many

  • WORD STUDY – WINE יינ Genesis 9:21: “And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.” So this man of God, this one righteous person, the one who walk with God, and found favor in the sight of God, leaves the ark and the first thing he does is

  • WORD STUDY – A BLESSING – ברכ Genesis 1:27-28a “So God created man in his image, the image of God created he him. Man and female create he them, and God blessed them.” I remember one time when I was a camp pastor in a Christian Camp. We had one camper who was invited by

  • WORD STUDY – THE BOOK OF LIFE Luke 10:20: “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” Psalms 69:28: “Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.” The Book of Life

  • WORD STUDY – FEIGNED LIPS Psalm 17:1: .”A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, [that goeth] not out of feigned lips.” Do you ever stop to wonder how such private thoughts and prayers ended up being read by millions and millions of people throughout

  •   WORD STUDY – APPLE OF THE EYE Psalms 17:8: “Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,” It seems every Christian at one time or another has heard this expression explained as the little man of the eye. You are pictured in God’s eye and constantly

  • WORD STUDY – BRANCHES עצימ I Kings 17:12: “And she said: As the Lord thy God lives, I have not a cake but a handful of meal in a barrel, and, behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it and