WORD STUDY – A TENDER HEART

II Kings 22:19: “Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place.”   Josiah was a king who not only sought to serve God, he loved God.  He became King of Judah at the age of 8 years.   Ten...

WORD STUDY – ABSENT AND PRESENT

II Corinthians 5:8: “We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.”   I had a friend who was a retired Greek professor and Greek Orthodox.  I was a retired Hebrew teacher and Baptist.  We would get together...

WORD STUDY – HARA (THE EVIL)

II Chronicles 36:5: “Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.”   Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah, king of Judah.  Josiah was the last...

WORD STUDY – ABAD (SERVICE) BEYOND THE DALETH

II Chronicles 34:33:  “And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God, and all his days they departed not from following...

WORD STUDY – SAVE, DELIVER

Jeremiah 42:11  “Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; be not afraid of him, says the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.”   Jeremiah 42-43 tells us an amazing story. Judah has now been conquered by...