So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NASB Christ – Is it the Son’s words or the Father’s words? If you look at this verse in the King James Version, it reads, “by the word of God.” That’s because the KJV is based on the Greek Textus Receptus,…
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. Romans 10:17 NASB Hearing – If you were Paul, the Jewish rabbi Sha’ul, what Hebrew word would you have in mind when you wrote the Greek verb akoe (to hear)? There can only be one obvious answer – shama. But as soon as…
Consider Isaiah 30:15-16 Some quotations and some commentary. The work cited is Mark Buchanan’s The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath. “In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter…
but they mingled with the nations and learned their practices, Psalm 106:35 NASB Learned – David described Israel in the 10th Century BC. He might as well have penned this line 3000 years later. Haven’t we mingled with the nations and learned their practices? Aren’t we in the same place as Israel before Babylon? What…
I gratefully thank You, living and existing King, for returning my soul within me with compassion, abundant is Your faithfulness. Prayer Upon Arising (first prayer of the Siddur) Faithfulness – This prayer is the very first prayer a devout follower of YHWH says when he wakes. It is a rather simple prayer but it has…
and God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Genesis 1:5 Hebrew World translation Called – This will be a bit difficult, but I know you are up for it. I am going to ask you to step out the usual way…
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He has made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2:2-3 …
“See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,” Debarim 30:15 (ISR) Set before you – The poets of Babylon understood what it was like to live in a world where the gods were silent. “Although I am constantly looking for help, no one takes me by the hand. When…
