•   Exodus 3:6: “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” I have a 7:00 AM run in my disability bus four days a week where I pick up Jimmy and Andy and take them to the VA Hospital. Jimmy is an Iraq

  •   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

  • 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

  • Genesis 24:1, “And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.”   In Wednesday night’s prayer meeting our pastor’s son gave the announcements before turning the service over to his father, the pastor, and as he put it, “the old man.” Our pastor had a few

  • Genesis 22:13:  “And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.”   I never really considered the significance of the ram being caught in the thicket.  My initial thought was, well God had to have the ram held in place by something.  But

  • Genesis 17:1 “The Lord appeared unto Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect.”   The Lord appeared unto Abram.  The word appeared is ra’ah which has the idea of seeing through spiritual eyes.  It is also used for a vision.  In its primitive form it

  • WORD STUDY – BESIDE Genesis 18:8: “And he took butter and milk and the calf he dressed, and set before them and he stood by them under the tree and they did eat.” Beside: Hebrew – Alihem: exaltation, rising above, upon, (in rare cases) beside. This is a very interesting passage of Scripture.  Three angelic

  • Good  Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomin: Mark 14:68: “But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest.  And he went out on the porch; and the cock crew.” General Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of the Battle of Little Roundtop during the Civil War, told the story of an