Go directly to video study. Today’s study is about the word dárash, a Hebrew word for searching. A good intention for the new year can be to search in the Word on regular set times. Finding is guaranteed. Shanah tova!
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Go directly to video. The app I use to find images for my blog, gave this statement when I searched on the keywords ‘pride sin’. Although pride has been known as one of the capital sins for centuries, nowadays it has a very different connotation. And not just that, in today’s western culture there is…
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Go directly to video. The third study in the Mussar series. This time the trait simcháh, joy.
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Go directly to video. ‘Eimah, fear, is a so called negative middah (character trait). No one escapes being afraid now and then, however brave or courageous some of us may be. The bible is honest about this and grants us a powerful insight on how we can deal with fear. Watch the video study on…
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Go directly to video. Since some time I’ve been studying Mussar, a jewish movement that helps one build good character traits. We all would like a little more or a little less of some particular traits. For the time to come, I would like to explore the character traits that I’m working on by doing…
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“Your voice is worth hearing.” When you look around you, it may seem that there are not many people who need this encouragement. Few people hesitate to speak their mind. Yet I believe that there are also people who are too quiet. People who don’t make themselves be heard enough. In our noisy society, shyness…
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Today there’s a word study on the word hádár, beauty, glory, majesty. In this study we also learn more about the Festival of Tabernacles, which is around the corner. Something to think about: this quote from Elizabeth Elliot on beauty. It is often said that order symmetry are connected to beauty. What are your…
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Click here to go directly to the video study. For seven years I have visited Tilly*. Tilly no longer participates in society, she is nursed in a nursing home. When I started my visits, I took my guitar and we sang together. When we sang “Abide with Me”, it was not uncommon for her to…
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