WORD STUDY – OUR GIFT TO CREATE –עשׁה

   Ecclesiastes 12:14: “Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”   It is interesting that the word for God is haelohim and has an article in front of it. It should more properly be rendered as Because...

WORD STUDY – THE GOD האלוהימ

Ecclesiastes 12:14: “Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”   It is interesting that the word for God has an article in front of it. The word for God is haelohim literally means The God which is...

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 – HOPE OR CERTAINTY

  Psalms 71:5: “ For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.”   I don’t know about you but somehow I cannot see David hoping God will come through.  Our modern concept of the word hope implies a sense of uncertainty.  In other...