I was recently reading through Matthew and read chapters 26 and 27 surrounding Jesus’s betrayal, arrest, and condemnation. It caused me to wonder if I would have been very different from any of the groups surrounding that event…
Month: July 2016
Psalm 12: The Mirror
I often think that it is the other person who is to blame and who needs to change, but when I look closer into the word, I realize that the broken face staring back at me from the truth of scripture is no other than my own.
Psalm 12: Silencing the Corrupted Voices
There are many benefits to living in the modern technological world that we do, but every benefit usually has a problem to counter-balance it. One of these benefit-problem balances, as I see it, is the ability to have our voices heard. Never before has anyone been able to enter the global conversation as easily as… Continue reading Psalm 12: Silencing the Corrupted Voices
Psalm 11: How Can You Say to Me?
I have long thought verse 3’s question, “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” was a righteous one. But as I study this psalm I don’t think it comes from a believing heart, but from a heart that has not placed its trust in God. Furthermore, I think the question actually… Continue reading Psalm 11: How Can You Say to Me?
Psalm 10: The Long Wait
I wonder what the circumstances of the Psalmists life was when he asked “Why, Lord, do you stand off?” But I’m not sure I will ever know. But it is not difficult to understand how, given today’s circumstances, we might ask the same question.
Psalm 10: The Most Difficult Thing
Has it ever seemed that God wasn’t involved in life anymore? Have you ever looked beyond yourself and wondered why there doesn’t seem to be an advocate for the helpless? No justice for the down-trodden? No refuge for the persecuted? Has it ever seemed as though evil people always triumph? That they never get caught?… Continue reading Psalm 10: The Most Difficult Thing
Psalm 9: In Praise of What?
I don’t know about you, but for me God’s works often seem trapped on paper and bound in leather. On the pages of Genesis 1 we find the creation of the universe, and in Genesis 8 we find the flood of judgement. The important Abrahamic covenant is found in Genesis 12, and the exodus from… Continue reading Psalm 9: In Praise of What?
Psalm 8: Majesty’s Broken Minstrel
The earth is filled with the unbounded glory of God. Yet, for reasons known only to God, he has made man to be the rulers of his creation AND the ones who sing of his majesty. But how is it possible that sinful fallen creatures such as us could be the ones to sing his praise?
Psalm 8: A Moment of Majesty
As I look back at Psalm 3 through 7 I find them all to be about the psalmist’s problems. Psalm 3 poses the question whether God will protect the psalmist from his enemies. The writer of Psalm 4 wonders when God will bring him comfort. Psalm 5 is a record of requests being brought to… Continue reading Psalm 8: A Moment of Majesty
Eve
I rarely think about Eve’s tragic life, focusing rather on her giving into temptation. But in this story I consider what that moment of lost innocence might have been like as well as how she handled losing two sons in an instant. *** Longer than usual post: 4,132 words ***