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…
Today’s Chef Special: “CHURCH”
Today’s Chef Special: “CHURCH” 3 John 6, 9-10, “They have testified before the CHURCH of your love and friendship. You will do well to forward them on their journey [and you will please do so] in a way worthy of God’s [service]… I have written briefly to the CHURCH; but Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead…
Today’s Chef Special: “GOD”
Today’s Chef Special: “GOD” Genesis 1:26, “GOD said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon…
Today’s Chef Special: “HEAVENS”
Today’s Chef Special: “HEAVENS” Genesis 2:1, “Thus the HEAVENS and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” (AMPC) (Heb. shamayim) Strong’s #8064 The Hebrew word for ‘heavens’ may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the atmosphere of earth (Genesis 2:1, “Now at last the HEAVENS AND EARTH were successfully completed,…
Today’s Chef Special: “LAND”
Today’s Chef Special: “LAND” Genesis 12:1, “Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father’s house, to the LAND that I will show you.” (AMPC) (Heb. ‘erets) Strong’s #776 The common Old Testament word ‘land’ possesses several nuances of…
Today’s Chef Special: “ALMIGHTY”
Today’s Chef Special: “ALMIGHTY” Genesis 49:25, “By the God of your father, Who will help you, and by the ALMIGHTY, Who will bless you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings lying in the deep beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.” (AMPC) (Heb. shadday) Strong’s #7706 This divine name in Hebrew is…
Today’s Chef Special: “CONSECRATE”
Today’s Chef Special: “CONSECRATE” Exodus 13:2, “Sanctify (CONSECRATE, set apart) to Me all the firstborn [males]; whatever is first to open the womb among the Israelites, both of man and of beast, is Mine.” (AMPC) (Heb. qadash) Strong’s #6942 This Hebrew verb means ‘to make holy’; ‘to declare distinct’; or ‘to set apart.’ The word…
Today’s Chef Special: “WASHING”
Today’s Chef Special: “WASHING” Exodus 30:18, “You shall also make a laver or large basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, for WASHING; and you shall put it [outside in the court] between the Tent of Meeting and the altar [of burnt offering], and you shall put water in it;” (AMPC) (Heb. rachats) Strong’s #7364 In…
Today’s Chef Special: “OFFERING”
Today’s Chef Special: “OFFERING” Leviticus 1:2, “Say to the Israelites, When any man of you brings an OFFERING to the Lord, you shall bring your OFFERING of [domestic] animals from the herd or from the flock.” (AMPC) (Heb. qorban) Strong’s #7133 This Hebrew word is derived from the verb ‘to bring near,’ and it literally…
Today’s Chef Special: “ANOINTED”
Today’s Chef Special: “ANOINTED” Numbers 7:1, “On the day that Moses had fully completed setting up the tabernacle and had ANOINTED and consecrated it and all its furniture, and the altar and all its utensils, and had ANOINTED and set them apart for holy use,” (AMPC) (Heb. mashach) Strong’s #4886 This verb means to wet…
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