I was crying out to the Lord with my voice, and He answered me from His holy [b]mountain. Selah Psalm 3:4 NASB Crying out – There’s not much debate about the sense of this verse. The psalmist feels his desperate situation and voices his concerns to God. God answers. Hallelujah! We get it. But there is a bit of grammatical mystery…
The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” Matthew 8:27 NASB What kind of man – We are not equipped to encounter real holy men. Peter once exclaimed how wonderful it was to see his Messiah in the presence of the…
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 NASB Word – Yesterday we considered the possibility that the Bible is not like books written from a Western point of view. Yesterday we suggested that the Bible is a book about experiences with the holy God of Israel,…
But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9 ESV Where – Some time ago we learned that Hebrew has two words for “where.”[1] God’s question, the first question in the Tanakh, is not about Adam’s location. It is about God’s surprise that Adam is not where…
