Men do.   INTRODUCTION: An apple falling from a tree striking Issaac Newton on the head led him to discover the relationship between gravity and weight. Weight is the force of gravity acting on an object. His theory of gravity revolutionized our understanding of the physical attraction of the universe. Gravity also offers us a picture of the Spiritual Force operating in heavenly realms that identifies our inner reality and relationship with God. Gravity, in a way, is God’s u

It’s a good way to give . In a few days, you will celebrate Thanksgiving—a holiday to focus, with a good meal with family and friends, what you must be grateful for. Everybody knows any good meal requires prep—the get ready to throw down. One sure fire prep to meaningful Thanksgiving is  “servant giving”. Giving to givers is a good way to give. God illustrates this kind of giving in Ezekial 45 as seen in the allotment of the sacred district of the temple: Make a place for God

Watch your step and who you step with. The yellow and black tape at a traffic accident, road hazard or crime scene is generally associated with one word— caution . It’s for your own good to watch your step to avoid danger. But yellow and black tape can also be associated with another word— circumspection —to move carefully toward something or someone that is safe and a service to others. The path to a good space is ladened with boundaries that bring you closer to God. EXPOSIT

…when you hate the right things. This post title is intended to direct your attention to the obvious: hate is in the air. Enmity pollutes our current toxic social climate and pressurizes our relationship atmosphere. Let’s get to the intended question: What’s the right thing to hate? Ezekiel 35:5 is a helpful barometer of hate. Enmity in the eyes of God is our gauge: 5 "Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at

We all eat.   SNAP  (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program); FAN  (Feeding America Network )— food assistance organization “short hands” have dominated recent headlines focused on longlines—people in America waiting for their next meal. That’s right—a first rate country with a third world problem—hunger. Nearly 42 million people face food insecurity daily. It’s nothing new. In Jesus’s day, Matthew 14’s headline reads: Messiah

It’s a lane thing, a heart issue.  More than half a million car wrecks in the U.S. each year are lane violations causing an estimate 60,000 injuries, some fatal. Not staying in your lane kills not only commuters, but kings and kingdoms. An unwise lane change brought down the King of Tyre and wrecked his powerful and wealthy Phoenician city-state in Ezekiel’s day.  The traffic report of Ezekiel 28 is much deeper: a poetic description of the fall of a perfec t angel blindsided

Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says: “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile, 4 therefore, behold, I am going  to give you to the people of the east as a possession, and they will set up their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk. Ezeki

Ezekiel 21: 30 “’Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge ...

Ezekiel 16:60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant...

Ezekiel 7:4 I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your conduct and for the detestable...

He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness , each at the shrine of his own idol? They...

22 The LORD'S loving kindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. 23 [They] are new every morning; Great is Your...

Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life. Lamentations 3:58 EXPOSITION:  To redeem is to purchase, to deliver....

Our word today is covenant— Berith  in Hebrew—found in Jeremiah 31. Everybody, at some time in life, will be presented with a deal: a...

EXPOSTION: Today’s word is good . The Hebrew word for good is tov or tob. It means good, acceptable, pleasing. You will learn that not...

EXPOSITION:  Break (shamar) means to shatter sometimes to the point it cannot be put back together except by its Maker. Even so will I...

Jeremiah 16:20 “Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!” EXPOSITION:   Punctuation matters. Elohim can mean the one,...

Happy 4th. I love it when God orchestrates things. He pulls things together in just the right time, place, and situation like this...

The word for the day (WFTD ) is “ seek ” (darash). It is found in Isa. 55:6: Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is...

Word-to-Grow-By ( WTGB ) is taking a break from the normal long-form Bible study format and will now, for a brief time, go to a shorter,...