I have always had a difficult time finding good tools for studying Scripture and the original languages. Most apps or programs out there either feel clunky, look bland, or just don't work the way I need them to. I have several apps on my unit that help me, a Hebrew/Greek interlinear, the Blue Letter Bible, MySword, Ginoskos, Greek Study, Tanakh, Septuagint LXX, but they are all separate. I had not realized it, but I needed a tool that had every function each of these had. Not long ago, I was cleaning out my computer files and stumbled across some Hebrew flashcards I had downloaded ages ago and completely forgotten about. Figuring I could use them, I opened it up and tested it, only to be frustrated. The design was old Windows 98-ish, and the limitations were just.. it was not worth keeping. I decided to see if I could tweak the code to my liking. Instead, I just ended up deleting it. But then, I thought, why don't I just build my own? What started out as a random, playf...

Musings on John 15:1-17 Consider this parable which the blessed Lord hath set before us concerning two sorts of professors in the visible Church. The one bears living fruit; the other remains utterly barren, withered, and dead. One is known to his fellow men as a believer—he speaks the language of Canaan and attends the house of God—yet he is known to the omniscient God as a dead, unregenerate religionist. Just as only a living mother brings forth living children, even so only a soul made alive in Christ naturally bears the fruit of the Spirit; but a dead professor bears no fruit whatsoever, for a corpse can never bring forth life. Life begets life, while death begets only death. All true believers are fruit-bearing branches grafted in, drawing their whole life from Christ, the living Vine. If a branch is cut off, the Vine remains alive and glorious; but if a branch is severed from the Vine, it dies, withers, and is fit only for the fire. How simple, how plain are these precious...

Just in this present year, our beloved brother, a son in the faith, was brought through to the completion of his studies.  Under the heavy burden of financial need, he was hindered from taking the necessary examinations with his peers to obtain his license. They have moved on to acquire work, while he was left alone and unemployed. It was a heavy, sifting season for his soul. And though the timely help and sweet encouragement of the brethren kept him from sinking beneath the waves, his heart sought no earthly honor—he desired only to surrender his own plans and wait upon the Lord to reveal His sovereign purpose. Just one short week ago, the Lord finally provided him with daily employment; one that kept him out upon the road from morning until evening. It was a door opened by Heaven itself. The nature of the work brought him into contact with scores of souls, and he was enabled to boldly share the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ to them all. His secular occupation became a mere side...

Musings from John 14:15-20 And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets. ~Nicene Creed. What glorious mysteries are laid open by the sovereign grace of God to the Bride of His only-begotten Son. Let every redeemed shout aloud for triumph—our precious Redeemer hath sent forth the Holy Ghost, the almighty Paracletos , the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees him nor knows him. He is the very Spirit that hovered over the face of the waters in the beginning (Gen 1:2) . The Spirit that spoke the universe into existence (Ps 33:6) . The Spirit that empowered Samson (Judges 14:6) . The Spirit that indwelt John the Baptist while yet in his mother’s womb (Luke 1:15) . The Spirit that overshadowed the holy virgin to bring forth the eternal Son (Luke 1:35) . The Spirit that descended upon Him at the river ...

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I return.’ Luke 19:13 This restless human longing to be the greatest, to be more, to stand first, to shine brightest, and to secure the chief seats at the right and left of the Lord—what is it all but human pride, carnal ambition, and vanity of our fallen nature? The trouble is not merely that men drive themselves to achieve great works. It is that their corrupt nature burns to occupy a place of distinction—to possess what belongs to God alone. Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ! Galatians 1:10 Greatness is never ascribed by God to fragile clay; only of pride do men seek to crown himself. Ever since the dawn of creation in the Garden, our poor souls have lusted to be as gods, claiming to know good and evil for ourselves. Yet, to entrust such high ...