Let me add one more teaching to your life that is good to remember and teach the next generation. It’s how life works. Very few times in your life will all systems be in a good place. Your marriage might be good and your finances good but your children...
“Do not forget all His benefits” (Ps 103:2). Why does the psalmist say this? Because we forget. Often. Our problems overtake us. They flood us and we forget all that we are in Him. We forget that this life is temporary. We forget God. In fact, when...
In the parable of the seed, one of the seeds that doesn’t make it is the worry seed. It gets choked by worries and faith begins to die. Because faith and worry do not go together. This last month I’ve been in a place of great stress. I feel my faith...
Agony. Pure agony. This is how the psalmist starts. Physical agony in every way. Using descriptors found in Job and elsewhere in the psalms, the writer says his bones burn like a furnace, he can’t eat food, his flesh sticks to his bones, he lies awake and...
If there’s any psalm that encapsulates David’s life and choices as leader and king of Israel, this would be it. His life was one of worship, singing praise to the LORD for both His faithful love and His justice. He announces his commitment to integrity,...
