David is, in underappreciated fact, the first “messiah”, which means anointed by God. God anointed David King over Israel, and made the only covenant in the Bible with and for one man: promising that one of his progeny would always serve as the King of Israel. And through the prophets, God also vowed that from […]
The Gaze of God
Once I had the unnerving sense that God was gazing on me. Here is how I described it: Once during prayer, God gazed upon me, How I know not, only That God was focusing on my entire being With a totality only God can attain. Everything slowed down to stoppage, Except my breath, as I […]
The Bible: Hesed and Holiness, and David’s Heart
It is essential to understand the meaning of two of the major words in the Hebrew Bible. If you would better grasp what God is about and what is going on between God and Israel – make that between God and humanity – you need to grasp their significance…. Whatever else can be said about […]
The Bible: The Heart of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy is a book of and for the heart. The word “heart” appears thirty-one times in its thirty-four chapters. Deuteronomy means “second law” and was most likely the book found in the temple during King Josiah’s reign (641-609 BCE). To an extraordinary extent, the heart of the king toward God, certainly after David, who loved […]
True Maturity
Maturity is difficult to gain and difficult to maintain. We may think we have arrived only to have some unexpected and frustrating life turning show us how immature we can still be. We may be very mature about some things some of the time, and perhaps a few things most of the time, but not […]
The Bible: The Hidden Heart of Exodus
There is the overt and the covert meaning to the events described in the book of Exodus. Overtly, it is the dramatic story of the call of Moses to lead the people of Israel—a desperate, disparate group of clans who had been slaves in Egypt for four hundred years—out of Egypt to covenant with the […]
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