Read Psalm 52-53 My wife and I had the incredible opportunity to go to Greece this past summer. We began our trip in Athens, one of the oldest cities in the world. I love history, so seeing the Acropolis and Areopagus Hill, where the Apostle Paul shared Christ, was an incredible treat. We also went to the Island of Crete […]
Read Psalm 50-51 Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin. "First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of blood, […]
Read Psalm 48-49 Any of you remember the Autostereograms that were poplar in the 1990’s? If the term isn't familiar, the images are. They are those pictures that just look like a ton of dots until you focus really carefully, and then a 3-D image appears. The most popular ones were the Magic Eye pictures. In fact they were so […]
Read Psalm 46-47 In college I was required to take a fine arts class. Now growing up, fine art to me was those velvet Elvis pictures you could buy along the road or in gas station parking lots. Music that impressed me was when a buddy could burp the alphabet. Yes, I know, classy. So […]
Read Psalm 44-45 The Millennial Kingdom is the thousand year reign of Christ which will usher in the New Heavens and New Earth talked about at the end of Revelation and prophesied in the Old Testament. Long-time Southern Baptist pastor Jerry Vines once gave a beautiful description of the Millennial Kingdom... "I will wake up one fair […]
Read Psalm 42-43 The summer before my junior year of high school, I went to a basketball camp at Cedarville University. I made the all-star team for the week out of the hundreds of kids there. I thought I was something special. At the end of the week, a guest speaker came to the camp, Bobby […]
Read Psalm 42-43 The summer before my junior year of high school, I went to a basketball camp at Cedarville University. I made the all-star team for the week out of the hundreds of kids there. I thought I was something special. At the end of the week, a guest speaker came to the camp, Bobby […]
Read Psalm 40-41 John Paton and his wife were missionaries in the New Hebrides Islands. One evening local tribesmen surrounded their house with the intent of taking their lives. The missionaries did the only thing they could think to do... they fell to their knees and prayed to the Lord for deliverance. Daylight came and the attackers left. […]
Read Psalm 38-39 King Canute ruled over Denmark, Norway, and England more than one thousand years ago. A wise and humble ruler, he worked diligently to make the lives of his subjects better. As is often the case, he was surrounded by those who sought to gain influence and prominence with him, and according to […]
Read Psalm 36-37 There once was a very rich man. This man had the finest clothes and would eat in luxury every day. He had all that money could buy. He experienced all the pleasures this world had to offer. He had no need of God. He had no time for God. There was another man who's life had fallen […]