Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah Psalm 3:2 NASB No salvation – Man on Fire Do you think God will forgive us MOVIE CLIP “You think God will forgive us for what we’ve done?” Rayburn replies, “No.” Such is the life of those who sin. Oh, wait a…
Then Joshua and all Israel [a]pretended to be defeated before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. Joshua 8:15 NASB Pretended to be defeated – Have you ever watched a movie with dialogue in your native tongue but with subtitles added? You’ll notice immediately that the subtitles often flatten the conversation, reducing the nuances and…
Lord, how my enemies have increased! Many are rising up against me. Psalm 3:1 NASB Have increased – I want to take this out of context. Why? Because there’s something important here that is not related to the physical enemies David faced. There are other kinds of enemies. Most of us don’t live in a war…
All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. Song of Songs 3:1 NIV Did not find – There is little doubt that the erotic poem of Song of Songs has caused consternation among translators and commentators. Read as tongue-in-cheek intimations, it…
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Genesis21:15 NIV Put – Most of us are captive to our mother tongue. As a result, we read the Scriptures in languages other than the original. As everyone knows, translations leave things on the table, especially nuances, idioms,…
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 NASB With me – Paul Tournier gave us some important insights into the modern disease of isolation: “Most of our contemporaries, dragooned and drowned in our mass society,…
And it was when the king of Ai saw, they hastened and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. Joshua…
And it was when the king of Ai saw, they hastened and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. Joshua…
