“Well, you can believe whatever you want, because religion is only a matter of opinion.” Perhaps you’ve heard such sentiments expressed – or maybe that’s what you yourself believe. But the psalmist shatters such ideas by holding up before us a matter of historical fact: that the Lord made the…

It’s not always easy to sing for joy to the Lord, is it? That was certainly the case for God’s people in the days after God led them out of Egypt. Yes, God had allowed them to walk through the waters of the Red Sea while drowning Pharaoh’s pursuing army…

In our increasingly polarized society, a desire for vengeance on our enemies may be the only thing all of us Americans have in common anymore. Oh, we define those enemies quite differently, but don’t we all want God to bring down the proud and the arrogant (verses 2-4)? Don’t we…

“The floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.” That truth hit home to me on my first trip to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. It was so strange to see steps leading nowhere, sidewalks and trees remaining in place but house after house…

Bible Reading for June 18 – Psalm 92 There’s more than enough time from Monday through Saturday to focus on all the evils in this world – the stupid senselessness and the wickedness that fills our TV and computer screens. So it’s no wonder that this “song for the Sabbath…

War in Europe. Shootings in schools and churches. COVID cases rising again, along with the price of gasoline, which, even when adjusted for inflation, is the highest it’s been in a century. Oh, and hurricane season is just getting started. To say that we have many reasons for fear is…

Our whole society is continuing to change at a dizzying pace, and for so many of us the signs of aging are undeniable. So, while we might like to meditate on the first verses of this Psalm today: “from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God,” our minds are instead drawn…

I hope we all know that we don’t have to go to Zion, the mountain on which Jerusalem stands, anymore. For no matter how interesting the site of the Old Testament Temple of God may be, the oldest buildings in modern Jerusalem date back only to the Middle Ages. In…

If Psalm 85 is a plea for God to help His people as a whole, in today’s psalm, David asks God to be gracious to him as an individual. In fact, verses 8 and 10 remind us all that prayer should be our first response even to our most difficult…

“Will you be angry with us forever? Will you not revive us again?” As we see the collapse of the family, the increasing anger and violence in our streets, and the gridlock in our Federal government, it’s hard not to pray such prayers, isn’t it? In fact, the last nationwide…