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,...

I had a conversation with a librarian. In our conversation, she asked me, “Why don’t black men take care of their children?”—another...

This week, a first responder emergency room doctor left her ten children at home to work at a hospital in southern Gaza. Hours later, the...

In 1971, Memorial Day became a national holiday by an act of Congress; it is now celebrated on the last Monday in May to honor those who...

My garden is well on its way. I can’t wait to see what will come. For me a garden is more about relaxation than vegetation.   People get...