WORD STUDY – A PROTECTED TREASURE

WORD STUDY – A PROTECTED TREASURE

Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”   This is one of those verses you listen to all your life and then one day it just hits...

BEYOND THE DALETH – DEREK AND NATAV

Isaiah 42:16: “I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known.”   “Adversity is the first path to truth.”   Lord Byron   Commentators have covered every base as to who the blind are. Some say it is...

WORD STUDY – A BRUISED REED Isaiah 42:3:

Isaiah 42:3:  “A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.  He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.”   There is a beautiful double meaning in the word for reed (qaneh).  But first a little history lesson.   Ever wonder where...

WORD STUDY – THE WORLD’S PEACE

John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”   I have heard numerous sermons on this passage in my lifetime and they all seem to interpret this...

WORD STUDY – WEARY AND WEAK

Isaiah 40:29: “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.   Clarence Jordan, who was instrumental in the founding of Habitat for Humanity, was a gifted man who had two PhD’s in Greek and Hebrew and Agriculture.  He could have become a...