Today’s Word
Coming and Going (2)
Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry! Psalm 88:2 NASB Let . . . come before You – The first thing you should notice is the change in syntax. In Hebrew the verb comes first. So, it reads, “Let come before You my prayer.” The action is the important thing. What…
Answer the Phone (2)
Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You. Psalm 88:1 (English) NASB Cried out – “The phone’s ringing. Answer it!” Do you find it difficult not to answer a call? Are you annoyed with people who just let the phone ring but don’t pick up? For decades…
Tears on Your Shoulder (2)
Lord, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You. Psalm 88:1 (English) NASB Lord, the God – Make sure you realize why both of these words are found at the beginning of this poem. YHVH, of course, and ʾĕlōhîm. Today we consider both of these as designations of…
Sing It Again (with Additions)
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the music director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A [a]Maskil of Heman [b]the Ezrahite. Psalm 88:1 (Hebrew) Music director – We investigated this unusual psalm about three years ago (perhaps you remember). At the time I didn’t know the “frightening emotional darkness in [this] psalm that is absent…
Who Is a Jew?
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, Romans 9:6-7a NASB Not all Israel – In theological history, Paul’s statement about Israel has been one of the most divisive remarks ever made. The Church has used this and…
Manifest Destiny
Our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Matthew 6:9 NASB Hallowed – Recently we looked at this verse through the scholarship of Ernst Lohmeyer. We discovered that “hallowed” meant changing God’s hiddenness into observable glory. “Hallowed be Your name” really means doing all we can to reveal God in this world. Whether…
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- Coming and Going (2)
- Answer the Phone (2)
- Tears on Your Shoulder (2)
- Sing It Again (with Additions)
- Who Is a Jew?
- Manifest Destiny
- Angel of Light (Rewind)
- Nothing Written
