WORD STUDY – BLESSING OTHERS

Genesis 12:2-3: “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.  And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee.”   I have heard many Christians who firmly insist that...

WORD STUDY – LA CHAIM (TO LIFE)

Genesis 2:7: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”   Remember the song from Fiddler on The Roof?  LaChaim.  (la – to, chaim – life).  What were they celebrating?  ...

WORD STUDY – INHERIT THE WIND

Proverbs  11:29: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.   Back in 1955 Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee wrote a play which was a fictionalized account of the Scopes trial.  They used the...

WORD STUDY – PREPARE ONES HEART (BEYOND THE DALETH)

Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”   You read about Ezra and the word that comes to mind is fanatic. This old boy devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish...

WORD STUDY – MOPHETH (MIRACLE OR CREDIBILITY)

Exodus 7:9: “When Pharaoh says to you: ‘Prove yourself by working a miracle.’ It is interesting to note that the word for prove here is not nacah which means to prove.  The writer is using the word Nathan.  This was another vocabulary word that I found easy to...