Oct 9, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, according to Jewish tradition, that all of those who worshipped the Golden Calf, died. It’s recorded in Exodus 32:27-28: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to...
Oct 9, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:1-2) As to why David wrote this psalm and for whom, there is much discussion in...
Oct 8, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today we are just four days away from what is considered, in Judaism, to be the holiest day of the year. Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement marks the culmination of a 40-day period of teshuvah, or repentance. On Yom Kippur atonement was made for the sins of the nation...
Oct 7, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day, that tradition says that the son of Jacob, Naphtali, was born. Naphtali’s birth came about as a result of one of the most infamous sibling rivalries in all of Scripture, that between Leah and Rachel. These two sisters had been contending with one...
Oct 7, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:5) I’ve often wondered just what David meant by these words seeing that, in all of Creation, only mankind was created in the image and likeness of God. That...
Oct 6, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
In the Gospel of John, we are given the account of the sickness, eventual death and subsequent resurrection of Lazarus. One of the more interesting features in this particular story is Messiah’s delay in going to him followed with this statement in John 11:4: “This...
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