by Paraclete Press | Jun 26, 2016 | Happiness, Terms of Heart, Voice
Both regular and casual readers of the psalms might legitimately question my supposition that the heart of “the man after God’s own heart” was one primarily characterized by and possessed of happiness. In light of the fact that the psalter is heavily...
by Paraclete Press | Sep 27, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Voice
“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning,” (Ps 130:5-6) wrote the unidentified psalmist of the eleventh Psalm of Ascent. The lack of...
by Paraclete Press | Aug 9, 2015 | Covenant, Terms of Heart, Voice
Yesterday I chuckled when I heard myself say to my dog the same thing I would have to a disobedient child. In response to my growing exasperation that my usually compliant pup had ignored me after I had used the “come” command several times with varying levels of...
by Paraclete Press | Jul 19, 2015 | Covenant, Law, Terms of Heart, Voice
If you were asked to define your faith, where would you begin? More particularly, if you were required to explain the basis of your belief in God, as well as your understanding of the character of who or what God is, what words would you use? Suppose describing your...
by Paraclete Press | Jun 28, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Voice
One of my early blog posts discussed literary voice as a basis on which to establish the majority of psalms – particularly the “lamed-David” ones — as the work of a single poet. Although there is not universal agreement on that point, there is not much lively...
by Paraclete Press | Jun 14, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Voice
The personal story with which I concluded my June 7 post was intended in part to demonstrate the mind-heart concept embodied in the Hebrew word lev, as well as to illustrate the power of heart’s memory, in the context of a modern real world experience. I say in part...
