Today’s Word
Allegory
All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. Song of Songs 3:1 NIV Did not find – There is little doubt that the erotic poem of Song of Songs has caused consternation among translators and commentators. Read as tongue-in-cheek intimations, it…
Recent Travels
Some photos from the summer
Notes on Translations
When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Genesis21:15 NIV Put – Most of us are captive to our mother tongue. As a result, we read the Scriptures in languages other than the original. As everyone knows, translations leave things on the table, especially nuances, idioms,…
Isolation
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 NASB With me – Paul Tournier gave us some important insights into the modern disease of isolation: “Most of our contemporaries, dragooned and drowned in our mass society,…
What Time Is It?
And it was when the king of Ai saw, they hastened and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. Joshua…
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