The voice of the Lord will call to the city—And it is sound wisdom to fear Your name: “Hear, O tribe. Who has appointed its time?” Micah 6:9 NASB Hear – There is a lot of translator liberty in this verse. You have read the NASB. Here’s the NIV: Listen! The Lord is calling to…
I’ve been in Singapore for the last few days visiting my dear friend and collaborator, John Samuel. Some years ago John contacted me regarding the research he had collected about innate characteristics in human behavior. The result of that fortuitous encounter was the book Living in Your Zone and the subsequent refinement and expansion of…
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. Romans 15:2 NASB Please – The wonderful thing about paradigms is that they help you make sense of the world. In fact, if you start discovering anomalies in your world–things that just don’t add up–paradigms offer useful solutions. You can claim that…
My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me. Psalm 101:6 NASB The faithful of the land – “The Torah is God’s wisdom, and Israel translates it into real life.” “. . . Israel…
And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. Galatians 4:28 NASB Children of promise – The movie Pi (not the movie The Life of Pi) is the story of Max, the Jewish mathematician and his involvement with a Torah sect that seeks the code of God’s name in the letter-numbers of the Hebrew Tanakh. …
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! Psalm 57:5 ESV Be exalted – All contemporary models of psychological practice are based on a Greek paradigm of cause and effect. Basically, they all seek to understand causes in order to alter effects. From pharmacology to Freudian analysis, the…
I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. Psalm 57:2 ESV Fulfills – “I cry out to God Most High, to God, who vindicates me.” NIV “I cry out to God Most High, To God who accomplishes all things for me.” NASB “I will cry out to God…
And they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:32 NASB Explaining – Years ago Paul Little wrote a small book called Know Why You Believe. Like many other evangelical books, its premise…
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 NASB (9:5 in the Hebrew text) Today’s word edition comes from a comment by Rodney…
. . . that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:26 ESV Just – In our thinking, justice means following the rule of law. But in the ancient Near East, justice is conformity to prior paradigm cases and traditions. In our world, a legal structure…
