Psalm: 45 Meditation: MarkSometimes the 20/20 hindsight makes us wonder how Jesus could give the same message in so many different parables and examples. Even the disciples did not understand many of these things until after the resurrection. Today, many people make the same mistakes using their own experience or interpretation of events or even …
Tag: Interpretation
Friday, May 6
Psalm: 36 Meditation 2 John: Take a breath, this is a long one. (all 13 verses). The identification of the original readers of this epistle is difficult because of disagreement regarding the interpretation of “the elect lady and her children” (v. 1). Some scholars believe the address should be taken literally to refer to a …
Sunday, February 28
Psalm 24, 29 Meditation: Genesis – Pharaoh calls for Joseph to come from jail to interpret the dreams that he has been having. Pharaoh’s advisors and wise men had been unable to figure out the meaning of his dreams so the next step for the Pharaoh is to send for a prisoner who had interpreted …
Wednesday, May 13
Psalm: 119:49-72 Meditation Daniel: Daniel is a somewhat unique prophet or visionary who, like his predecessor Joseph, found favor wherever he went. He was gifted, (some say plagued) with numerous visions most of which he could interpret. This seer’s life was far from easy. Some of Daniel’s visions baffle scholars to this very day and …
Friday, May 1
Psalm: 105 Meditation 2 John: Take a breath, this is a long one. (all 13 verses). The identification of the original readers of this epistle is difficult because of disagreement regarding the interpretation of “the elect lady and her children” (v. 1). Some scholars believe the address should be taken literally to refer to a …
Wednesday, April 29
Psalm: 119:1-24 Meditation Daniel: Belshazzar, son or, more likely, grandson of King Nebuchadnezzar, was entertaining all the nobles of his kingdom – about 1,000 in all. Suddenly a human hand (and I imagine it to be gigantic so that all could see it) appeared and wrote a strange (i.e., foreign) and ominous message on the …