• WORD STUDY – WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER ABEL Genesis 4:9-10, “And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s keeper? What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” I don’t know about you but when

  • WORD STUDY – DAVID’S HEART SMOTE HIM 1 Samuel 24:5: “And it came to pass afterward, that David’s heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.” We are all familiar with this story. Saul had a posse out after David and David is not wanted Dead or Alive but basically dead. David and

  • WORD STUDY – THE AGREEMENT Isaiah 7:11-12: “Ask thee a sign of the Lord, thy God, ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord.” Luke 12:24: “To whom much is given, much is expected.” I believe we all, at

  • WORD STUDY – THOU SAYEST – ARAMAIC Matthew 27:11: “And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.” It is Easter Sunday and I am, of course, meditating on the Easter Story. I decided to read it this

  • WORD STUDY – ABIDE IN CHRIST – ARAMAIC – קוא John 15:6: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast [them] into the fire, and they are burned.” I grew up in a Baptist fundamentalist church where evangelism was our

  • WORD STUDY – Eli Eli lama sabachthani (My  Destiny) Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Genesis 15:9-10: “And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,

  •   WORD STUDY – UNJUST GAIN – בצח Jeremiah 51:13: “O’ you who dwell by many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, and the measure of your covetousness.” Clearly the context of this passage related to a judgment against Babylon. So why should a prophecy of judgment against a city that existed over

  • WORD STUDY – A MAN INBETWEEN 1 Samuel 17:4: “And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.” I read something this morning in the Talmud that sent me to I Samuel 17 and the old story of David

  •   WORD STUDY – SEE GOD לאלהאנחזו(ARAMAIC) Matthew 5:8: “Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” “It’s a highway to heaven None can walk up there But the pure in heart” – Tommy Dorsey I caught a couple episodes of the 43 year old TV series Highway to Heaven on Pure

  • WORD STUDY – SELF SEEKING – עמרr Amos 2:12-13: “But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Prophesy not.’ Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” Amos is a contemporary of Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea. He came from a little farming