Seed of Abraham – Deeper Meaning

This promise is related to several other references to the promise of descendants that God gave to Abram, now Abraham.

Genesis 13:16 – seed as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Genesis 15:5 – count the stars, so shall your seed be.
Genesis 22:17 – seed will be as numerous as the stars and the sand on the seashore
But, there are three things different about this particular verse.

The Shepherd, The King, The Lamed

There is a letter of the Hebrew alphabet that rises above all the other letters and is considered to be the middle of the alphabet. This letter in the original script looked like a shepherd staff. In the modern Hebrew it looks like a throne. On top of the Lamed is a crown. What is interesting is that the Lamed with the two letters on either side spells the word “King.”

Renewing Your Mind

Here is a list that I came up with years ago to promote biblical thinking. I will say that I did see a small list like this that began it’s creation within me. I challenge read this every morning or pick one at a time as a devotion. Proverbs 23:7 As a man thinks in [...]

The Crossing

Our sin that runs from Adam and Eve which then leads to the Dead Sea (death) was interrupted by another Joshua, Jesus, when He created a crossing for us.

Interpeting the Bible

Who are we and who do you trust enough to pick and choose what scriptures are true? Can we afford to pick and choose?

What do we do with scripture that we do not understand or may sound contradictory?

Jesus, the Vav

This is my second article on the Vav, the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Not only is it the sixth letter of the alphabet, it’s numerical value is six. Six represents the number of a man, Revelation 13:18. In the article on the “broken vav” we discovered that it represented Jesus. The name for the [...]

Perfected Praise

Matthew 21:15-16,  But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”  And Jesus said to them, “Yes.  Have you never read, ‘Out of [...]

Speak To Be Understood

Matthew 13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. I am including this one because the verse did much to direct me when I began pastoring in [...]

What If Starbucks Did Business Like We Do Church?

If you follow the life of Jesus you will find that the reason people came to Jesus was to see Him, hear from Him and be healed. Watch the following video and laugh or even cry at the way we do church.

Understanding the Future From Genesis

This verse, along with six other times Isaiah uses this same type of statement, has been misunderstood to mean that God knows the difference between the beginning and the end or that He has designed the beginning and the end with their own characteristics.

Rather, from the Hebrew the verse more acurately should read like the following: