WOTD, ῥῆμα
The word of the day is… ῥῆμα, ῥήματος, τό Greek, rhēma, rhēmatos, to, 1. word, statement 2. phrase, sentence 3. subject, topic 4. Greek grammatical category of verbs For the linguistically minded, definition 4 had me perusing the web for other grammatical terms, and finding this link. Posted in Word of the Day

Satan’s Knowledge
A friend and I were having a discussion today that led to an interesting train of thought. I’m not sure there is a hard and fast answer to this, but I’m interested in your input: Do you think that Satan knows or operates under the knowledge that he will be defeated? Are his attacks on God’s people simply rage at impending doom? Or does he operate thinking he can somehow overcome God’s plans, that he can exalt himself without facing judgment for it? Or is he operating out of ignorance, ignoring the future, rather than dealing with the knowledge of who God is? My friend expressed that Matthew 8:29 and Ezekiel 28:11-19 both made him believe t

The Cost Of Forgiveness
I was doing my Bible study this morning, in my Hebrews LABS, and found some of the comments very interesting. They led me off in a slightly different direction from where the study was going. So I wrote down a few quick comments. Now I am coming back to them. This quote started the thought-process: Forgiveness costs. In order to forgive, our anger must be set aside, and a sacrifice must be made. But we who are hurt must make the sacrifice, not the one who hurts us. If we forgive a debt, it cost

English as a Second Language
It’s been a couple years since I was involved in an English as a Second Language (ESL) program. And I am glad to have gotten back into it. I really enjoy teaching conversational English (with  work on good pronunciation) to internationals. Yesterday evening, I taught words related to food. We looked at words to describe taste in general (tasty, delicious, etc.). We then moved on to more descriptive words for taste (salty, sweet, etc.), words for texture and consistency (crunchy, chewy, etc.) and then finally described temperature (hot, cold, lukewarm, etc.) Going from there to let them share some food likes and dislikes, and why, using these descriptive words was

Review of Love And Respect
Lave & Respect The Love She Most Desires, The Respect He Desperately Needs Author: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs Hard Cover, 240 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson Language: English ISBN-13: 9781591451877 Thanks first to Thomas Nelson, who provided me this review copy of Love & Respect. In this book, Dr. Eggerichs attempts to provide a frame