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...
Oct 6, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) We don’t know exactly what night it was that David stared up at...
Oct 5, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that Gedaliah ben Ahikam, governor of Judah after the destruction of the first Temple, was assassinated by other Jews at Mizpah (2 Kings 25:22-25). To commemorate this assassination and the dispersal of the Jewish remnant still left in the land of...
Oct 5, 2024 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) Why does David not mention the sun along with the moon and stars?...
Oct 4, 2024 | All Posts, On This Day |
Today is considered by Judaism to be the second day of Yom Teruah (a.k.a. Rosh Hashanah or “head of the year.”). And so on this day, the story of the akedah or “the binding” of Isaac, found in Genesis 22:9-10, is read in the synagogue. “Then they came...
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