Today’s Word
Confident Assurance
Leave me, all you who practice injustice, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. The Lord has heard my pleading, the Lord receives my prayer. Psalm 6:8-9 NASB Receives – Does God really care? Perhaps just asking the question seems monstrously irreverent, but I’m pretty sure that at least a hint of this has crossed your mind once…
Fooled Me
I need a break. My head is hurting from all these investigations into the complex differences between how I think and how Moses thought. So, here’s just some visual reminders that God is still the same even if I can’t figure it all out.
A History of Spiritual Abuse
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. A prayer of a righteous person, when it is brought about, can accomplish much. James 5:16 NASB Confess – to one another– Was James the first Twelve-Step sponsor? It certainly seems as if he exhorts the assembly to reveal sins…
Benjamin Lee Whorf
So Moses wrote down this song on the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel. Deuteronomy 31:22 NASB Moses wrote – I want to look at something about the linguistic cultural reflection in Hebrew verb-gender combinations. I think it’s fascinating, but it’s technical, at least to begin with. So I’m a bit…
Food Poisoning
“A lion roars. Who does not fear? The Master, the LORD, speaks. Who cannot prophesy?” Amos 3:8 Robert Alter translation Prophesy – Does this two-line poem seem odd to you? What does the roar of a lion have to do with giving divine predictions? Before we can draw conclusions about Amos’ intention, we need to…
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