How often, from the very depth of your being, do you bless the Lord?  For too long, the Church has been made up of Sunday Christians who show up for worship services but who walk away and live godless lives from Monday to Saturday.  In writing Psalm 103, David wanted to bless the Lord from the core of who he was.  He wanted every piece of himself to exist ... [Continue Reading]

Back in January Kari and I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Passion Conference in Atlanta.  Passion is geared toward college students, and the conference seeks to help college students grow in passion about their faith.  As volunteers, we each received a t-shirt that said “doorholder” across the front.  The idea of a doorholder comes from Psalm 84 ... [Continue Reading]

A fool is one who acts unwisely or imprudently.  A fool can also refer to a person who has been duped.  It’s interesting to me that David said, in Psalm 14:1, that a fool is one who says in his heart that God isn’t real.  I have heard a lot of people give arguments for why they believe God doesn’t exist, but none of those arguments has been compelling ... [Continue Reading]

Sometimes it’s easy to think that the things of this world are simply all random.  After all, that’s what the evolutionary biologists hold to.  The universe is a random array of events that just so happen to have occurred in a sequence that enabled the Milky Way to be created.  In turn came the planets and the earth, and eventually plants and animals ... [Continue Reading]

In Psalm 56, David writes of something very unusual; he says that God catches his (David’s) tears in a bottle.  What exactly does that mean?  If you ever visit the Holy Land, I’m told that you can actually purchase a small bottle that is used to collect a person’s tears.  David was implying that God has such a bottle, too, and that he cares so deeply for ... [Continue Reading]