Psalms 118:14: “The Lord is my strength and song and is become my salvation.” I remember years ago we used to sing a little chorus based upon this verse. I remember my spirit was always quickened when I heard the words the Lord is my song. Until now, I never really stopped to consider
Psalms 119: 136: “Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.” This morning I was reflecting on a recital put on by a local music school that I attended some time ago. The performers were about junior high school age and I had to admit that they were
Psalms 119:162: I rejoice at they word as one who findeth great spoil. The word in the Hebrew here for word is ‘amar and not devar as I thought. David is rejoicing over simple ‘amar’s or sayings of God. Some translations will render this as promises. This is based upon the context but
Psalms 119:176: “I have gone astray like a lost sheep, seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments.” “I’m just a little lamb who is lost in the woods, I know that I could always be good, To someone who will watch over me.“- George Gershwin “Someone to Watch Over Me”
Luke 15:11-12 “And he said, A certain man had two sons And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided unto them [his] living.” We have all heard this story of the prodigal son. A father had two sons.
Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God My God, why has thou forsaken me?” Yesterday I gave one possible rendering to this baffling phrase that Jesus was not calling out to God asking why He was abandoned,
Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God My God, why has thou forsaken me?” This being Easter Weekend, my study partner insisted I present a study for Easter. There is really not much about the death and resurrection
Matthew 26:39: “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” We are now approaching the Easter holiday weekend and I am constrained to offer a study
Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia , which bordered Washington D.C., I took a room in a house with three other borders. One was an engineer working on the new rapid transit system for Washington, D.C., the
Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Here is a question I have asked among Christian teachers as I was going through Bible College and seminary and never
