Today’s Word

Quarantine

My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand far away.  Psalm 38:11  NASB Plague – Perhaps the modern world is finally uncomfortably familiar with this word, negaʿ.  Translated “plague,” we discover that the root (nāgaʿ) is about touching.  The noun, which we have in this verse, isn’t always about…
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Going Home

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.  2 Corinthians 5:8  NASB 1995 Absent – “The fantasy of escape from the struggle of existence must be deeply addressed if one is to find the vital center of one’s being.”[1] “I just…
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Sick to Death

I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go in mourning all day long.  For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no healthy part in my flesh.  I feel faint and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart.  Psalm 38:6-8 NASB No healthy part – Despite the fact that the idea is theologically untenable, the…
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A Tender and Delicate Sadness

“Man, who is born of woman, is short-lived and full of turmoil.”  Job 14:1  NASB Man – I still have places to go. Katmandu, Nepal Paro Taktsang Monastery, Bhutan Skógafoss, Iceland Anse Lazio Beach, Seychelles Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan Cao Bang Ban Gioc Waterfall, Vietnam Caño Cristales, Columbia Raja Ampat, Indonesia Dongchuan, China Marble Caves, Chico, Chile…
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Air Time

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking about in the garden . . . Genesis 3:8a  Robert Alter Walking – Sometimes our English translations cripple Hebrew intention.  Verses become pedestrian instead of surprising.  We read them as if they had nothing more to say than our simple-minded interpretation.  We reduce the biblical…
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