WORD STUDY – FEEDING ON THE WIND

by | Jul 1, 2014 | Devotionals

Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.”   One of  the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales”  is entitled “The Pardoner’s Tail”    In this story he makes...

WORD STUDY – MAD AT GOD

by | Jun 16, 2014 | Devotionals

Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.”   Translators have really played around with this verse.  No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God is in...

WORD STUDY – TEMPT

by | Apr 15, 2014 | Devotionals

  Matthew 4:1: “Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.”   Every modern translation I read renders the Greek word peirazo as tempt as well they should as that is what it means. But in the ancient Greek, as used in the...

WORD STUDY – GOD IS IN OUR NOSES

by | Mar 28, 2014 | Devotionals

  Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.”   Translators have really played around with this verse. No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God...

WORD STUDY – AN EVIL SPIRIT

by | Nov 28, 2013 | Devotionals

II Samuel 18:10: “And it came to pass on the morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied in the midst of the house.”   “There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.” – Sophocles...