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  • The Circle of Life

    Your faithfulness continues throughout generations; You established the earth, and it stands.  Psalm 119:90  NASB Generations – Disney borrowed from Genesis.  “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).  Well, maybe not exactly.  After all, the…

  • And Equal Justice For All

    Though while he lives he congratulates himself—and though people praise you when you do well for yourself—he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.     Psalm 49:18-19  NASB The generation of his fathers – Do you recall the investigation into verse 15, the verse that apparently suggests an afterlife?  We discovered that the idea…

  • Remains of the Day

    But You, Lord, remain forever, and Your name remains to all generations.  Psalm 102:12  NASB Remain – God remains forever.  In Hebrew, יְהֹוָה לְעוֹלָם.  You’ll notice immediately that David uses the personal name of God, יְהֹוָה , not the word “Lord.”  This matters, since he continues the thought with “Your name,” not “Your title.”  There were plenty of other divine…