Today’s Chef Special: “INSPIRATION OF GOD” 2 Timothy 3:16-17, “All Scripture is given by INSPIRATION OF GOD, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (NKJV). (Gk. theopneustos) Strong’s #2315 The Greek word means ‘God-breathed,’ from ‘theos’ (God) and ‘pneō’ (to breathe). Although it…
Month: August 2021
Today’s Chef Special: “IDLE BABBLINGS”
Today’s Chef Special: “IDLE BABBLINGS” 1 Timothy 6:20, “O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and IDLE BABBLINGS and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge” (NKJV). (Gk. kenophōnia) Strong’s #2757 This Greek word literally means ‘empty words.’ In Paul’s writings, the Greek word ‘kenos’ expresses the ultimate emptiness of all that is not…
Today’s Chef Special: “RIGHTLY DIVIDING”
Today’s Chef Special: “RIGHTLY DIVIDING” 2 Timothy 2:15, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING the word of truth.” (NKJV). (Gk. orthotomeō) Strong’s #3718 This word, which occurs only here in the New Testament, means ‘to cut straight,’ as to cut a straight…
Today’s Chef Special: “THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”
Today’s Chef Special: “THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN” Matthew 25:1, “Then THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.” (AMPC) (Gk. hē basileia tōn ouranōn) Strong’s #932; #3772 This phrase, used almost exclusively in Matthew’s Gospel (33 times), is a Jewish way of saying,…
Today’s Chef Special: “CAREFULLY”
Today’s Chef Special: “CAREFULLY” Nehemiah 3:20, “After him Baruch the son of Zabbai CAREFULLY repaired the other section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.” (NKJV) (Heb. charah) Strong’s #2734 The Hebrew verb translated ‘carefully’ here usually means ‘to burn with anger’ (Genesis 39:19, “And when Joseph’s master heard the…
Today’s Chef Special: “HOPE”
Today’s Chef Special: “HOPE” Psalm 38:15, “For in You, O Lord, do I HOPE; You will answer, O Lord my God.” (AMPC) (Heb. yachal) Strong’s #3176 This Hebrew word signifies ‘to wait with expectation.’ Almost half of its occurrences are in Psalms, and it is especially frequent in Psalm 119. Sometimes the idea of hope…
Today’s Chef Special: “SERVANT”
Today’s Chef Special: “SERVANT” Isaiah 42:1, “Behold my SERVANT, Whom I uphold, My elect in Whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice and right and reveal truth to the nations.” (AMPC) (Heb. ‘ebed) Strong’s #5650 This word is derived from a verb meaning ‘to serve,’ ‘to work,’ or ‘to enslave.’ While…
Today’s Chef Special: “DIVINE POWER; DIVINE NATURE”
Today’s Chef Special: “DIVINE POWER; DIVINE NATURE” (Gk. theios dunamis) 2 Peter 1:3, “For His DIVINE POWER has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).” (AMPC) Strong’s #2304; 1411 The Apostle…
Today’s Chef Special: “MORNING STAR”
Today’s Chef Special: “MORNING STAR” 2 Peter 1:19, “And we have the prophetic word [made] firmer still. You will do well to pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dismal (squalid and dark) place, until the day breaks through [the gloom] and the MORNING STAR rises (comes into being) in…
Today’s Chef Special: “KNOWLEDGE”
Today’s Chef Special: “KNOWLEDGE” 2 Peter 1:5, “For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] KNOWLEDGE (intelligence),” (AMPC) (Gk. gnōsis) Strong’s #1108 This Greek word for ‘knowledge’ usually connotes progressive, experiential, and personal knowledge; it…
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