Death in the Desert

The cords of death encompassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness terrified me. Psalm 18:4 NASB Torrents – Escape! Escape to the waste places! Run for your life away from the wicked and their overpowering influence. How else will you survive? How can you resist the constant barrage of cultural deviations from the way of…

An Internal Paradox

Taste and see that the Lord is good, happy the man who shelters in Him. Psalm 34:9  (R. Altar translation) The Man – What kind of man shelters in the Lord?  What kind of man runs to God for rescue?  Our first response might be “a man in trouble.”  Behind that answer is the assumption…

The Meaning Of “Is”

Taste and see that the Lord is good, happy the man who shelters in Him. Psalm 34:9  (R. Altar translation) Is – Much to the dismay of all moral people, Bill Clinton traded personal ethics for sophistry on meaning of the word “is.”  Had he been a follower of the Hebrew God, he would have…