Sunday Devotional: Psalm 111:10
The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord; a good understanding belongs to all who do [His precepts]. His praise stands for ever. Psalm 111 is an acrostic psalm where each line of poetry follows the...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 85:9(8)
I will hear what God says, for the Lord will speak peace to His people–even to His faithful ones, and they will not turn back to stupidity. Psalm 85 is a plea for restoration. God’s people have...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 130:3-4
3 If, God, you keep in mind sins–O Lord, who can stand? 4 Yet with You [is] forgiveness in order that you may be held in honor. In Psalm 130, the psalmist pleads for the Lord’s forgiveness. and...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 90:12
Teach [us] to number our days so we may obtain a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90 is a sober reminder of our frailty and transience compared to the everlasting, almighty God who created all things, sustains...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 127:1
If the Lord does not build the house, those building labor on it in vain; if the Lord does not keep watch over the city, the watchman keeps watch in vain. Psalm 127 consists of poetic wisdom sayings...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 131:2
Surely I have soothed and I have stilled my soul like a weaned [child] upon his mother; like a weaned [child] upon me is my soul. The heading of Psalm 131 tells us that it is a song of David, and it is...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 137:9
Blessed is he who seizes and smashes your children against the rock. Psalm 137 is, perhaps, one of the most difficult psalms in the psalter, not so much for its theology, but for the emotion expressed....
View ArticleSunday Devotional: John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. This terse statement by John at the beginning of his Gospel is packed with an incredible amount of theological depth. I...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Hebrews 13:17
Follow those who lead you and submit [to them], for they are watchful for the sake of your souls, as those who will hand over an account, so that they may do this with joy and not groaning, for this...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 139:16
Your eyes have seen my embryo and in Your book all the days that were planned [for me] are written when [there was] not one of them. In Psalm 139, David reflects upon the sovereignty of God, and the...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 139:4
When there is not an utterance on my tongue, O Lord, you know its entirety. Last week we looked at Psalm 139:16, and there noted the possible context of the psalm. If you recall, the psalm is a...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 139:23-24
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; examine me and know my disquieting thoughts, 24 and see if a way of pain is in me, and lead me in the way of eternity. If you recall, the context of this psalm...
View ArticleSunday School Notes: Romans 14:14-17
14 I know and I am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing in itself is unclean, except to the one who reckons something to be unclean, to that person it is unclean. 15 For if on account of food your...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 142:7a (8a)
Lead my soul out from the prison [in order] to praise Your name. According to the title, this psalm was written by David while “in a cave”–probably when he was on the run from King Saul. If you recall,...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 146:3-4
3 Do not trust in princes, in the son of Adam, concerning whom there is no deliverance. 4 His spirit goes out and he returns to his ground; on that very day, his plans perish. From the opening of this...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Psalm 150:6
Let every breathing thing praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! I think this single verse, the last verse in the Book of Psalms, encapsulates the message of Psalms 147-150. It is both an exhortation and a...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Judges 2:11
And the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and they served the Ba’als. When God told Moses that He had set aside the land of Canaan as the dwelling place for His people, He instructed...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Judges 2:16
And the Lord raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of those plundering them. We saw last week how Israel ignored the Lord’s wise command to purge the land of those that would lead them...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: 1 John 3:1
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, such that we should be called children of God; and we are. On account of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him. As Trinitarians,...
View ArticleSunday Devotional: Judges 2:17
17 And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they prostituted [themselves] with other gods and they bowed down to them; they turned aside quickly from the way which their fathers walked, to hear...
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