... the sacred chords of home. You all have heard the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah,” which currently you can find in 200 different recordings, although the most famous are those by Bon Jovi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXmsxYvrxU&feature=related), K.D. Lang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE), and my personal favorite, by 8-year-old gospel singer Rhema http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBW57t1Mvs&feature=related. The first verse written by this Canadian Jewish composer and writer introduces the ...
... judge of all the earth will do right. Additional Notes 23:17 The Hb. for shrine prostitute is q e dēšâ [MT v. 18], lit. “a holy one.” The person was “holy,” not in the moral sense but in being ... of the “detestable practices” forbidden there. 24:14 The hired man (Hb. śākîr) was part of a group of dependent laborers, closely linked to ... social details of Israel’s working population, cf. Sulzberger, “Status of Labor,” Lang, “Social Organization,” and C. J. H. Wright, God’s Land, pp. 99 ...
... play Brahms. When the casting director approached Arnold Schwarzenegger and asked him if he’d like to be in the movie, too, he thought about it a minute, then nodded and said: “I’ll be Bach.” O.K., I said it was a bad joke. Jesus said he would be back ... That’s how it ends. The God of all creation wipes away tears from His children’s eyes. 1. J. Stephen Lang, The Big Book of Bible Bloopers (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2007), p. 242. 2. Source Unknown. http://www.sermonillustrations.com/ ...
