Heschel

  • Second Best

    For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16  NASB To the Jew first – Paul was not ashamed, but don’t cut his sentence short.  He was not ashamed of the good…

  • The Bloods of Your Brother

    And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living person. Genesis 2:7 (my translation) Breath – Once we realize that this word, hayim is plural, we are forced to ask why, especially since the preceding word, nishmat, is singular. …

  • Embarrassed by God

    My tears have been my bread day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:4 Hebrew text (Hebrew World) Where – “Tragic is the embarrassment of the man of faith.”[1] Do you experience the embarrassment of faith?  Have you had the accusations of Job’s wife thrown at you?  “If…

  • Persons of Interest

    I was fortunate in my early twenties to spend some time with Francis Schaeffer at L’Abri.  Those days made me realize that my faith required serious consideration and deliberate contemplation. At Oxford, I was privileged to have John Lucas as a tutor.  His genius infected my thinking and made me wish for even greater insight….

  • Unholy Rollers

    “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” Matthew 14:31 Doubt – “There is no word in Biblical Hebrew for doubt; there are many expressions of wonder. Just as in dealing with judgments, our starting point is doubt, wonder is the Biblical starting point in facing reality. The Biblical man’s sense for the mind-surpassing grandeur…

  • Rodantes Profanos

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  • Divine Karaoke

    Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to YHWH Exodus 15:1 Sang – shiyr is the Hebrew verb, “to sing.” Most of the time the word is used in connection with worship. The pictograph tells us that the word is about deeds or work that consumes the person. In other words, singing…