Read: Psalm 15:1 | Restricted Entry! What is your reaction when you see such a sign? Do you look around and wonder what is inside that requires restrictions? Or, do you simply turn away. In this case, David poses the question in reverse. He asks who can enter and dwell with God. He then […]
Read: Psalms 14:2 | Timothy Rogers, a popular Arkansas evangelist and singer, preached at a funeral in early June 2018. During his sermon, he told those assembled, “Hell is a fairytale no different than Santa Claus!” He then continued to veer off track with more non-biblical pontifications. Not believing what I was reading, I stumbled […]
Read: Psalm 13:1-2 | A journalist was assigned to the Jerusalem bureau of his newspaper. After a brief search, he found an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. After several weeks, he realized that whenever he looked at the Wailing Wall he saw an old Jewish man praying vigorously. The journalist immediately recognized that this […]
Read: Psalm 8:1 | Psalm 8 starts out “O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth,…” How can a name be majestic? After all, it is only a “name”. In William Shakespeare’s 1594 play, Juliet also mused “What’s in a name?” But in Shakespeare’s personal reflection on the subject, he […]
Read: Psalms 5 | Thomas Chisholm wrote the poem that became the well-known hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” in 1925. Surely, the words to the poem were birthed in the cauldron of his life’s triumphs and failures and tempered by the Holy Spirit. I imagine that as he wrote, he reflected upon his birth […]
