Identity Card (1)

This has become mine, that I comply with Your precepts.  Psalm 119:56  NASB Has become mine – My wife, Rosanne, carries an Italian identity card.  Anywhere she goes in the EU, all she needs is this little card as her identification document.  Of course, this is an entirely modern invention.  In the past, identity was a…

The What?

“Moses My servant is dead; so now arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.”  Joshua 1:2  NASB This – There’s something very odd hidden in this verse, something you will never see in translation.  The two nouns, “Jordan” and “people” have…

The Purpose of Suicide

For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth.  John 18:37  NASB This – An ordinary pronoun with an extraordinary meaning.  Touto is the Greek pronoun for this.  There is nothing spectacular about it.  Except here.  Here Yeshua says that His entire reason…