Age Before Beauty

I understand more than those who are old, because I have complied with Your precepts.  Psalm 119:100  NASB More than – The grammatical error spreads.  Consider the strikingly different translation of Chabad: “From the wise elders I gain understanding, for I kept Your precepts.”  The NASB rearranges the syntax and translates מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים as “more than the aged”…

Experience Matters

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you.  Exodus 20:12  ESV Experience Matters by Michael Moen My son, Michael, wrote this on his birthday nine years ago.  I think it’s time to read it again. Honor – The word kābēd…

Experience Matters

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you.  Exodus 20:12  ESV by Michael Moen Honor – The word kabbed is found 376 times in the Hebrew Bible. It is used over half the time as a reference to a “weighty”…