Today’s Word
What is Truth? – Pilate
“The sum of Your word is truth,” Psalm 119:160 What is Truth? – Pilate Truth – You must leave our post-modern paradigm behind. You must walk away from the conception that truth depends on your point of view. That was Pilate’s mistake. In his world, truth was relative to the situation. He stood in the…
The Best You Can Get
“The sum of Your word is truth,” Psalm 119:160 The Best You Can Get Sum – The Hebrew word rosh has a very wide range of meanings. It can designate a person’s head, a chief, a leader, the source and even hair on your head. But here it is used as a metaphor to mean…
Words from a different World
“The sum of Your word is truth,” Psalm 119:160 Words from a different World Word – What does God say? Words! But not the kind of words that we think of in our world. We think of words as symbols for the real thing. Our concept of “word” is essentially Greek. It is tied to…
Getting Things Done
“Then God said” Genesis 1:3 Getting Things Done Said – How do we get things done? The bottom line to most of our activity is that things get done by the application of some kind of force. Want to build something? Apply physical force. Want to buy something? Apply financial force. The human experience of…
What You See
“Hear, O Israel, the LORD is our God, the LORD is one!” Deuteronomy 6:4 What You See Hear – The great shema. Hear. In this pivotal text of the Old Testament, we are introduced to a different view of life. God’s paradigm is not our paradigm. Life is not based on WYSIWYG (What You See…
Praying Life, Breathing Soul
“By David. To You, O LORD, I lift up my soul.” Psalm 25:1 Praying Life, Breathing Soul Soul – Hebrew is a language of concrete images. It is not like the Western European languages that we use; languages full of abstract terms without physical references like “time” or “omnipotent” or “omniscient”. Hebrew deals with tangible…
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