Articles
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Silent Reading
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: Deuteronomy 17:19 (KJV) Read – In the early 400s AD, St. Augustine wrote about…
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Butchering the Truth
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Philippians 3:2 (KJV) Concision – Paul was a wordsmith. He enjoyed using words to convey particular meanings, creating his own words, and digging into the uncommon words of society. The latter is true for this particular word translated as “concision.”
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Laying Up Treasures
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: Matthew 6:19-20 (KJV) Treasures – We discovered in another…
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The Talmud
The Talmud is Hebrew for “learning.” Interesting that the Torah means “teachings” and the Talmud means “learning.”
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Lech Lecha
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: Genesis 12:1 (KJV) Get thee out – God tells Abram, lech lecha (לֶךְ-לְךָ), get thee out. As is much of the Hebrew Bible, this is…
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Sinful Nature: A Greek Paradigm
For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18 (NIV) Sinful nature – If it’s in the Bible, it must be true, right? Unfortunately, “sinful nature” is not what…
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Year Review of 2019
I spend a lot of time researching and writing articles for this website. It’s been a project of mine since 2014. My cadence is normally about one article per week because 1) it’s all the time I have, and 2) It doesn’t overwhelm my audience with posts. This site is an effort to document my…
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To Sanctify, or Not To Sanctify
All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. Deuteronomy 15:19 (KJV) Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no…
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Calling on the Name
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13 (KJV) Call – For most of Christianity, we imagine ourselves verbally calling out “Jesus” to receive salvation. In fact Paul writes just three verses earlier, “with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Obviously there’s a message about verbalizing the…