The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Song of Songs 1:1 NASB Of – A friend of mine spent a lot of time working in Asia, particularly with Chinese people. Of course, communicating usually meant translating, especially when business contracts were involved. But translating wasn’t just a matter of finding a Mandarin word for an English…
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a [a]virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14 NASB Virgin – Italy is a young nation. In fact, it’s much younger than the United States, becoming a unified nation on March 17, 1861. Before that date,…
She weeps bitterly in the night and her tears are on her cheeks; she has none to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies. Lamentations 1:2 NASB Weeps bitterly – Someone sent me a quote from Tzvi Freeman: “The first job of a teacher is to…
casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 NASB Cares – What is a paradox? We could rely on dictionary definitions like this one: “a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true,” but what this really says is that a paradox is only an apparent problem. The definition…
“Three times a year you shall make a festival to Me.” Exodus 23:14 (J. Green) Festival – As the sun goes down tonight we will complete the last day of Sukkot. This experience is a remembrance of the time in the wilderness when God delivered His people from the hand of bondage in Egypt. This…
Taking the child by the hand, He *said to her, “Talitha kum!” (which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). Mark 5:41 NASB Talitha kum – What was the native tongue of Yeshua and why does it matter? The common understanding and teaching of most theological schools of the West is that “Jesus” spoke Aramaic, not…
Well, just in case you’ve been wondering what we’ve been doing while we can’t travel outside of Italy, here we are at Seceda in the Italian Alps. Oh, and it starting raining the next day–and the next–and the next until we gave up and came back to Parma. But as you can imagine, I’ll be…
God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:31 NASB All that He had made – Gutenberg destroyed the Bible. Oh, yes, he printed it in German, but in the process he forever changed that way we understand the…
One of my faithful supporters asked if I could send this again after the similar theme in the last couple of days, so here it is: Back to the Golden Calf By Skip Moen, Ph.D. / May 3, 2017 So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who had asked of…
