Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37:7 NIV Wait patiently – What do you do with a messy grammar? Do you stick with traditional readings? Or do you entertain alternatives? And what do you do when there’s no…
We are in Barcelona today. If you ever come here, be sure to take some time in the evening to see the Water Tower Building – a nightly light show as the colors move up and down the structure.
The Lord spoke To Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does one of them– Leviticus 4:1-2 JPS Unwittingly incurs guilt – “But I didn’t know!” We’d like to believe that this justification…
At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: ‘At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.’” Joshua 6:26 NIV Solemn oath – Who is involved in this oath is…
I don’t think I will ever tire of witnessing the beauty in these canyons. I’d love to go again but I’m afraid my body isn’t up to the task any more.
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[a] but only the Father.” Matthew 24:36 NIV No one knows – Theological paradigms are just as resistant to challenge as any other paradigm, perhaps even more so. In the history of science we often find great thinkers making…
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” Genesis 3:22 NASB Live forever – “But two horrible fears haunt man steadily, trailing him like an everlasting shadow: the…
The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 NASB The man – I’ve put “the man” in bold to call your…
