Today’s Word

The Other View

We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, scorn and contempt to all round us.  How long, O LORD, will You rage forever, Your fury burn like fire?  Pour out Your wrath on the nations that did not know You and on the kingdoms that did not call on Your name.  Psalm 79:4-6 (Hebrew Bible)…
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The Minds of God

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord:  Isaiah 1:18a  KJV Reason – Despite the later translation corrections of this Hebrew verb (yākaḥ rendered in the NASB as “debate” and in the NIV as “settle”), most believers of a certain age recall this verse in its King James vernacular, “let us reasontogether.”  We won’t…
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No Aspirins, Please

My voice to God—let me cry out.  My voice to God—and hearken to me.  In the day of my straits I sought the Master.  My eye flows at night, it will not stop.  I refused to be consoled.  Psalm 77:2-3  (Hebrew Bible) Robert Alter Refused – “You’ll feel better in the morning.”  “This too will…
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Says Who?

“The Son of Man is going away just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good [a]for that man if he had not been born.”  Matthew 26:24 NASB As it is written – I recently engaged in a lively interchange with someone…
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