“and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:32 NASB Know the truth – It seems that every once in awhile we need to review our investigative methods. We need to take a step back and ask ourselves if the way we go about examining the Scriptures leads us to a place…
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. Psalm 42:7 NASB Rolled over me – “All of our addictions and busyness keep us away from the rich life below the surface.”[1] Do you think Gretchen Schmelzer’s comment is true? Is life really richer under the surface? …
He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?” Genesis 37:30 NASB Is not there – The translation reads the way we expectit to read, but that isn’t what the verse actually says. In Hebrew it reads, einenu, that is “he is not.” Of course,…
Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah 1:4 NASB The word of the Lord – By now, I hope, we know that Hebrew is messy. Many of the sentences in the biblical text have multiple levels of meaning, are subject to nuances that cannot be captured in English (or any other language) and act more…
Just some entertainment today. On the left, Man at origin. On the right, Man at completion. But fig leaf fashion never seems to go out of style. 🙂 A ceiling in Spoleto, Italy, for those who need to know. ANNOUNCEMENT: The first weekend in November I will be speaking at the NCS retreat in upstate…
With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is a mere breath. Selah Psalm 39:11 NASB Precious– Do you suppose that David took a page from the life of Abraham, and that the author of Hebrews borrowed the same page from the life of…
and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.” Genesis 37:32 NASB Please Examine– I think we should create a new Bible board game. We could call it CLUE. We would provide various verses on cards and little…
“Am I a God who is near,” declares the Lord, “And not a God far off? “Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord. Jeremiah 23:23-24 NASB I do not see him– God is everywhere. That’s what omni-present means. …
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” Jeremiah 13:23 NASB Accustomed– How difficult it is to change how we think about life! We can be presented with all kinds of compelling “evidence,” yet our real operating procedures remain fixed by past experience. …
For man is born for trouble, as sparks fly upward. Job 5:7 NASB Born for trouble – Nihilism: “the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.” Or so it seems. “Not to be born is the best of all things for those who live on earth, and not to gaze on the radiance of the…
