WORD STUDY – HAVING A STIFF NECK קשׁהפרע

Exodus 33:3: “For I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people: Lest I consume thee in the way.”   The children of Israel were two and one half months into their journey to the Promised Land (Exodus 16:1).  All the food they packed...

WORD STUDY – GOD DOES NOT SLUMBER נומ

Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.”   Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia which borders Washington D.C.,  I took a room in a house with three other borders.  One was an engineer working on the new rapid...

WORD STUDY – A POSITIVE IMAGINATION סברא

  Genesis 30:37: “Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees and peeled white stripes in them exposing the white which was in the rods.  And he set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering...

WORD STUDY – PRAISE THE LORD הללוי

Psalms  147:1: “Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God, for it is pleasant and praise is comely.”   Some  people tend to think that worship only takes place with music.  Actually, everything that takes place during a church service is...