It is enlightening and entertaining reading through the Bible in another language. I’m going through the Bible on a daily basis in Portuguese this year and I’m continually amazed at how a turn of a phrase can give you a whole new insight on what a passage is saying. Abraham is in the midst of […]
Giants, floods and killing your brother’s wife
Sometimes you read for distance, sometimes for content, sometimes for divine revelation. Then there are times where all three merge and you just sit there dumbstruck, awed by what the Spirit just did. I’ve always been fascinated by the account of the nephilim in Genesis 6. I find it impossible to read the text and […]
Family feud
John knew him from the time he could walk. They were cousins, for heaven’s sake! His mom had told him that his cousin was special. He was “the one.” John knew his aunt Mary was a no nonsense person; all the controversy that had surrounded her and uncle Joe’s marriage was responsible for that, he […]