I have a rich heritage. When cleaning out my aunt's house I found a box of my family history. Lugged it home. As I was going through it and trying to compile it for my family, I found an article in several sources about my great-great-great-great grandparent's log cabin. Collin and his wife Jane were born in Donegal, Ireland and in 1790 they and their 3 children arrived in Philadelphia. Collin made his living as a silk weaver. In the ensuing years they made their way to the P

The word amen is found throughout the Bible. Matter of fact, it is even the last word of Scripture! Did you ever wonder what it means? The Hebrew word and the Greek word that are translated amen mean “so be it, verily, true,” “truly” or “so it is.” The literal translation is “truth.” Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. Then all the people said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. 1 Chronicles 16:36 And blessed be His glorious name forever;

I wrote a recent post about the key word “lovingkindness” which is found over and over in the New American Standard Bible. (If you want to read it, see He is Full of Lovingkindness.) I suggested in that post that you spend some time and read the verses in the Old Testament with the word “lovingkindness” in them and I had a link to those verses. These verses tell you God is tender-hearted, loving, merciful and compassionate. God loves kindly. I hope you noticed something else

The Hebrew word hesed can be found throughout the Jewish manuscripts and is a key word of the Old Testament. [Technically the Hebrew word is חֶסֶד and a rendering of it is checed according to blueletterbible.com and Strong's. Different languages have different alphabets. Transliteration is when you change a word into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language. Just like we often call Chanukah, Hanukkah (the English version); we call checed the English version, h

When reading the Bible there are certain key words that you will see over and over and it is important to grasp the meaning of these words. One such important key word is the word “covenant.” The word “covenant” is found 332 in the New International Version of the Bible – 295 times in the Old Testament and 37 times in the New Testament. When a word is repeated over and over in the Bible you should stop and take notice of the verse and the context of the passage. I like to hig

What comes to mind when you hear the word “saints”? Some really good people that do kind deeds? Most people think of a holy or godly person when they think of a saint. Some people think of saints as being in heaven. The word “saints” can be found throughout the Bible. In the New American Standard Bible (NASB) it is found 67 times. In the 1984 New International Version (NIV) it is found 68 times. Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) 62 times. English Standard Version (ESV)