Monday, March 31, 2014

Psalm 137:5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

HebrewTransliterationEnglish translation
כֹּל עוֹד בַּלֵּבָב פְּנִימָהKol‘od balevav penimahAs long as in the heart, within,
נֶפֶשׁ יְהוּדִי הוֹמִיָּהNefesh yehudi homiyah,Jewish soul still yearns,
וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח, קָדִימָה,Ul(e)fa’atei mizrach kadimah,And onward, towards the ends of the east,
עַיִן לְצִיּוֹן צוֹפִיָּה,‘Ayin letziyon tzofiyah;An eye still gazes toward Zion;
עוֹד לֹא אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתֵנוּ,‘Od lo avdah tikvateinu,Our hope is not yet lost,
הַתִּקְוָה בַּת שְׁנוֹת אַלְפַּיִםHatikvah bat sh(e)not ’alpayim,The hope of two thousand years,
לִהְיוֹת עַם חָפְשִׁי בְּאַרְצֵנוּ,Lihyot ‘am chofshi b(e)’artzeinu,To be a free people in our land,
אֶרֶץ צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם.’Eretz-Tziyon viy(e)rushalayim.The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Joseph's Bird Feeder....red to attract hummingbirds.


Helpless Against our Prayers

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
― J. Sidlow Baxter (1903-1999, Australian pastor and theologian).

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

This God

So transcendent, yet so personal. That He wants to know me personally is humbling, but more significantly, that He is giving me the opportunity to come close and know Him is unfathomable.What am I to make of this God, so infinitely holy, who gave his best begotten son, so that hopeless sinners like me can draw near.

What does one do with a God like this, but fall down and worship?


Friday, January 31, 2014

Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Holiness of God by RC Sproul...

Whatever happened to the study of The One True God?

“The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.” ― David F. Wells, No Place for Truth: Or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology