What is with the blog's address?

My original intent was to have the address "witheverything.blogspot.com" but apparently that address is no longer available. I suppose that is what I get for dragging my feet for years and resisting the whole "blogging" thing. Who knows? Maybe someday this blog will expand and envelop that address; however, for now "hetreshmem.blogspot.com" will have to do.

"Het Resh Mem" is a three letter Hebrew root. In Hebrew, it looks like this: חרם You have to remember that Hebrew reads from right to left, so the first letter is the letter "Het", the next "Resh", and the final letter is "Mem". One can add various vowels to these consonants to create a verb, noun, or other part of speech. In Hebrew prefixes or suffixes are added to create prepositions, show possession, make a direct or indirect object, show gender and number, or to accomplish other tasks related to verbally expressing a thought. Anyways, this root is used to express the idea of "to devote to God, consecrated possession, to ban, a devoted thing." I have a subsequent post with several excerpts from dictionaries expressing the nuances of meaning and scripture references where this word is found. If you are interested, I can provide several more and will post them if requested.

Over the last few months, the idea of חרם and the lyrics of the song "With Everything" by Hillsong have been tumbling around together in my mind. What is the connection between an Old Testament, primarily warlike, term and the concept of worshiping the Living God "with everything"? Is there a connection at all? Is this lexical term for total devotion an anachronism that has been replaced by a new construct or new paradigm in the New Testament? What ramifications for day to day living in the twenty-first century does this idea hold? Did Jesus have anything to say about these ideas? If indeed the concept of חרם is applicable to my life, how do I do it? What does this mean for me? I have yet to exhaust these thought processes and look forward to the interaction and mutual stimulation I hope this blog brings!