See my affliction and suffering and forgive all my offenses. Psalm 25:18 Robert Alter translation Offenses – hatta’t is the predominate Hebrew word for “sin.” It is a picture of missing the mark, as if we each were shooting arrows at God’s target and missing the dead center bull’s eye. Livingston notes the following insight:…
What a great weekend teaching and sharing with the Torah group in Droitwich! I wish you all could have been here to see the enthusiasm and commitment. These are people we need to support as they try to make a real difference here in England.
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. Acts 2:20 ESV More than nine hundred years ago, Maimonides, regarded as perhaps the greatest of Jewish expositor of sacred literature, wrote, “when the power of Edom [the Christians] and of…
You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2 NASB Add/take away – “Finally, there came a movement that made our lives bitter with all the methods it took over…
The distress of my heart has grown great. From my straits bring me out. Psalm 25:17 Robert Alter translation Distress – What binds you? What hems you in? What makes you feel as if you have no options, no choices? What propels you into the narrow straits? All of these things are tsarot, the plural…
seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature,…
Turn to me and grant me grace, for alone and afflicted am I. Psalm 25:16 Robert Alter translation Turn – We just want to see a smile. We want to look on the face of the Lord and see Him smiling. Growing up under the Roman idea of God as Judge, we have buried deep…
Between March 21 and March 30 I will have three conference dates in England. Here are the posters and the contact info. I hope all of you in the UK will be able to make one or more of these. Thanks. Skip
My eyes at all times to the LORD, for He draws my feet from the net. Psalm 25:15 Robert Alter translation At all times to – David’s declaration raises some significant questions. Did he always look to the Lord? Do we? Who among us can say that our eyes are always looking toward God? Who…
“Alas, sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who act corruptly!” Isaiah 1:4 NASB Weighed down – What burdens do you carry? Debt? Past mistakes? Children from divorce? Broken contracts? Public shame? Write them down, as painful as it might be. See what a long list you have to carry. Then…
