The heavens declare the glory of God Psalm 19:2 (Hebrew text) Declare – One of the faithful members of our worldwide community sent me this intriguing quote: “The Mystery of Dark Matter Something strange is afoot in modern cosmology. Scientists insist that 96% of the universe’s mass is actually invisible, detectable only through its gravitational…
All flesh is grass, and all its grace as the flower of the field. Isaiah 40:6 Grass – “The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.” So said the ex-Communist colonel in the recent film, The International. This is great script writing. We do expect our novels to make sense. …
Eliyahu Kitov relates the teaching of the famous sage, rabbi Akiva. Akiva’s insight bears directly on this duality resident in human beings and, in particular, with the ‘ezer kenegdo. “Some of our sages probe not only the words of the Torah, but each individual letter as well. The foremost exponent of this method was Rabbi…
for Yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen. Matthew 6:13 Is – Life is a struggle, isn’t it? Things don’t always go the way they should. Tragedy and trials are a part of our daily existence. In spite of prayers for bread, guidance and deliverance, bad things happen. Maybe God…
In linguistic analysis, a particle is a minor part of speech, usually a short few letters added to a word. These few letters are normally not declinable. That means that they cannot be modified in order to show relationships within the language structure. Most words in language can be modified to show how they relate…
“I deserve better!” “They owe it to me!” “It’s my right!” The world of the Twenty-first Century is filled with demands of entitlement. From religious expression to bedroom privacy, the plurality of our world voices its insistence on personal and social rights. Not a day seems to go by without a news story about some…
but deliver us from evil Matthew 6:13 Deliver – But do we really want to be delivered? Delivered means facing reality as it is, no fantasies, no band-aids, no idol protection. Maybe we aren’t so quick to be delivered because it’s so frightening. Isn’t that exactly what happens when we turn back to the idols…
One of the wonders of Europe is the centuries-old peek into Man’s attempt to create a feeling of the majesty of God. Just wander through some of the cathedrals and look up. Here are some examples from my trip to Spain. If we can make this kind of beauty, imagine what the ceiling looks like…
John 15:15 The New Testament uses a very strange word to describe our relationship to God. It is the word doulos. In most English translations, this Greek word is rendered “servant” or “bond-servant”. Occasionally, it is translated more correctly as “slave”. That is what it really means in Greek – slave. But not just any…
Course correction on the way to the Future Everyone wants to have a crystal ball about the future. In spite of the difficulty of prediction, we still try our best to peer over the time horizon. If we are really sophisticated, we develop statistical models, forecasts, and algorithms. If we are the ordinary types; we…
