Psalms: Psalm 34—Taste and See
This past Sunday we took a look at Psalm 34 as both a window in the rest of the Psalter, and how we can apply it to our lives, as well as discover that in the Psalms we find complementary material to...
View Article31 Proverbs: Grace Day
If you’ve been reading along in this little series—congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the second week. Today is a “Grace Day.”
View ArticleDay Twelve: Did You Just Call Me Stupid!?
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. (Proverbs 12:1, English Standard Version) Among many clear directives I grew up with, and established in our home as we...
View ArticleDay Thirteen: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
One of the key assumptions we’ve been working with as we make our way through the wisdom literature is that God has hardwired wisdom into the way creation (and the creatures within it…us) operates. It...
View ArticleDay Fourteen: Death By Living
For those of us desirous to live a good life, we’ve known since the very beginning of this book that it begins with a healthy awe, reverence, and trembling before the God of the universe whose name is...
View ArticleDay Fifteen: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me
I always feel like somebody's watching me. And I have no privacy. Woh, I always feel like somebody's watching me. Tell me is it just a dream? So sang Rockwell in the dawning of my high school years...
View ArticleDay Sixteen: O Captain, My Captain
It may be that one of the greatest illusions humans are under is that we often believe we ultimately control our lives and circumstances.
View ArticleDay Seventeen: The Great Gain Of Godly Contentment
We live in a world where the temptation is constant to believe the amount of our wealth and possessions directly translates to our joy and happiness. The Bible, once again, confronts our culture and...
View ArticleSong of Songs
We have defined wisdom in these five books—Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and now the Song of Songs—as applied skill and competence in our living. And this kind of wise living is only possible if...
View Article31 Proverbs: Grace Day
If you’ve been reading along in this little series—congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the third week. Today is a “Grace Day.” So take the day off. Read another portion of the Holy...
View ArticleDay Eighteen: Who Can Bear A Crushed Spirit?
The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit? A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. (Proverbs 18:14 and 17:22, New Living...
View ArticleDay Nineteen: God Chose Her, Not You
The doctrine of God’s rule and reign in and over all things comes crashing into the human conception of the self-made man. We are tempted to think we have so much to do with our happinesses. But the...
View ArticleDay Twenty: Stop This Train
“Youth is the glory of nature, and the glory of young men is their strength. Old age is the majestic beauty of nature, and the gray hair is the majestic splendor that nature has given to old age.”...
View ArticleDay Twenty-One: A Secret Gift
It was my first trip out of the United States (well, I guess that’s not completely true, I had been to Canada, but does a trip to America’s hat really count?). I was headed to Cameroon with three other...
View ArticleDay Twenty-Two: Shepherding Our Child’s Heart
Every Thursday night is date night. For this reason, I really look forward to Thursday—it is a highlight in my week. I love date night, because I am in love with my bride, and, I really like her too.
View ArticleDay Twenty-Three: When You Feel Like Quitting, Remember Why You Started
Committing to any endeavor that takes time always carries with it the challenge of making it to the end. Refinishing that dresser. Repainting the downstairs. Reading all of War and Peace (or finishing...
View ArticleJeremiah
This past Sunday marked our entrance into the Prophets of the Exile: Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Given that the defeat of Israel and Judah by the empires of the Assyrians and Babylonians was a devastating,...
View ArticleDay Twenty-Four: God Knows You Know
“First They Came….” They came first for the Communists, and I did not speak up— Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up— Because I was not a trade...
View ArticleDay Twenty-Five: Strange But True
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and Yahweh will reward you. (Proverbs 25:21-22, New Living...
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