A couple of months ago, I was sitting at the office and I had an unexpected visit. One of the ladies at our campus came in and wanted to meet with me. Her grandfather, Charles, was dying of stage 4...
No matter how grand our vision, no matter how ambitious our plans for this new year, there is only so much we can do. Those who are successful ultimately have to learn the difference between areas where they have full...
Whenever I hear that my life is only a breath, it generally goes in one ear and out the other. Today, we are on psalm 39 and this is part of what David is talking about here. There is a lot that...
Happy New Year, guys! I’m thankful for each person following this blog and I hope God uses the posts in 2015 to bring you encouragement and challenge. As we move through Psalms, today we are on psalm 38. In this psalm,...
Today, we are on psalm 37 and it covers a lot of ground. Throughout the entirety of the psalm, the wicked and the righteous are being compared to one another. The wicked are those who reject God’s will for their lives and...
Today, we continue our series through Psalms and we are on psalm 36. David starts the psalm by highlighting the nature of those who choose to reject God’s will for their life. He then, partway through the psalm, makes a...
Today, we are on psalm 35 and I’ve struggled some with this one. In it, David is praying judgment on his enemies and it didn’t seem consistent with the Christmas spirit that I’ve been trying to attain. Then I started to reflect...
Today we’re on psalm 34 and it is a psalm of thankfulness. It’s difficult to pick one section to write on, but in verses 12-14 David says something that jumped out at me. He said, “Whoever of you loves life and desires to...
Today, we are on psalm 33 and in it, the psalmist offers a sobering and powerful lesson. I think his point is best articulated in verses 16-19. He says, “No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by...
Psalm 32Â really spoke to me for a number of different reasons, but there is something that jumped out at me the last time I went through it that I want to touch on. David starts out by saying in verse...