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Meditating on Psalm 90, the Groundhog Day Movie, and Life

March 6, 2025 Leave a Comment

Psalm 90 begins with some hard-to-hear words about our lives that are troubled with sin and all too brief, but then culminates with profound ideas about what brings life joy despite our difficulties.

Filed Under: Articles: Thinking Biblically, Interviews Tagged With: hebraic thought, meaning of life, Psalms, Sin

Two Talks on the Bible from an Insider’s Perspective

December 6, 2023 Leave a Comment

Remember in Genesis 15 when Abraham sacrificed animals to make a blood path to cut a covenant with God? You might think that you’d need to go back three thousand years to see this scene, but Rev. Dr. Milly Erema saw her family make covenants this way when she was a kid. Her traditional culture […]

Filed Under: Articles: Thinking Biblically, Uncategorized Tagged With: Biblical Worldview, Lois Tverberg

Advent: When Isaiah Explains the Words of Jesus

December 15, 2022 6 Comments

Advent is my favorite time of year because this is the one time that Christians read our Bible Hebraically, like the early church did. We open our Bible to the Old Testament and read it looking for God’s ancient promises and how they would finally come true in the Messianic age, in the coming of […]

Filed Under: Articles: Thinking Biblically Tagged With: Jesus as Messiah

Reading the Bible through Ancient Eyes (+ Update 1/24/22)

December 20, 2021 5 Comments

For the past couple months, I’ve had a remarkable Bible scholar staying at my house. Milly Erema has been teaching Old Testament for the past 20 years at Uganda Christian University. You’ve actually heard me quote her several times in my books, along with other Africans and Asians who I consult for their non-Western perspective.

Filed Under: Articles: Thinking Biblically, Blog: Update Tagged With: Biblical World, Old Testament, Personal Update

Speaking is Painting: Why No Translation Can Be “Perfect”

February 16, 2014 4 Comments

Many of us are frustrated by why no one seems to be able to come up with one perfect English Bible translation. Why are there so many versions? Why can’t we just have one final, best English translation? A major reason is because of one aspect of language that most of us don’t appreciate. When […]

Filed Under: Articles: Thinking Biblically, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible Translation, Hebrew Words

Worshiping Alone Together?

June 11, 2012 5 Comments

In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus I talked about Christian individualism. Our tradition greatly emphasizes the idea of isolating ourselves in order to experience God’s presence, whereas Judaism emphasizes community. Many Jewish prayers speak to God as “we” rather than “I.” Their daily morning prayers actually require a minyan, the presence of at […]

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