Are Christmas Trees Pagan?
Are we practicing idolatry when we have Christmas trees in our homes and public places at Christmas time? After all isn't a Christmas tree cut down and decorated with ornaments, garland, and icicles of silver and gold? These things lead many people to believe that a Christmas tree is . . .
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Psalm 1
What does it mean to be blessed? The Hebrew word (lemma form) is אֶשׁר, 'esher; it means happiness or blessedness. The English signifies such things as happy, fortunate, satisfied, prosperous, preserved, protected, guarded, favored, provided for, cared for, loved, and . . . (Picture used by permission from CC-Art.com)
The Promises of God
In this study, we will attempt to examine every promise of God in the Bible. Nevertheless, our study may not be all-encompassing due to the sheer magnitude of those promises. We may miss a few of them. But let us attempt to be as comprehensive as possible. . . (Picture courtesy of Free Nature Pictures)
The Word of God
Today we think of a word as a string of characters written or printed on paper or some other medium. The ancient Greeks, however, understood their expression for word much differently than we do now. Their understanding was much fuller than. . .(Picture is enlarged MS Mincho font character U+2627: Chi-Rho)
Examples of Christ in the Old Testament
There are many examples of Jesus the Christ in the Old Testament. Several are listed here. The Bible tells us in the New Testament that there are many things recorded in the Old Testament that were to be examples for us. For example, the Israelites displeased God in the Wilderness. . .(Picture used by permission from CC-Art.com)
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שאלו שלום ירושלים
—Psalm 122:6(a) (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem) *
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." Psalm 12:6-7
★ This work is undertaken in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. * Or, as the Masoretic text spells it, ירושלם (Yerushalam)
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(Instead of ירושלים, Yerushalayim, which is the plural form)
* שאלו שלום ירושלים is transliterated "shaalu shalom yerushalaim".