Psalm 33 – Part 2
Really, how much time to you spend in a given day giving God praise? Interestingly enough, the first time the word “praise,” yadah (ידה ), appears in the Bible is when Leah bears Jacob another son and calls him Judah (Gen. 29:35). Rightfully did she immediately praise the LORD (Yahweh, the eternal One) because through this special […]
Psalm 33 – Part 1
How often, or how readily, do you actually give God your praise? Giving Him praise comes naturally from one who knows and walks with Him. Giving Him praise is, for the believer, as natural as breathing clean, fresh air. So, stop and ponder for a brief moment just how regularly joyous praise flows from your […]
Psalm 32 – Part 2
In his ground-breaking book, The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, a graduate of the prestigious Harvard University, seeks to dispel the notion that success bring happiness. To him, it should be the other way around: a happy person becomes a successful person. But how can a person be happy to start with? Good question. Answer? Happiness […]
Psalm 32 – Part 1
Want a life filled with joy and happiness despite what occurs? Many books on the cultural market will be glad to point you in what they believe is the right direction. Here are few titles: I am sure books like these give you some workable ideas of how to move toward happiness and joy in […]
Psalm 24
Several years ago Liz and I headed over to George Mason for a Chris Tomlin concert . . . slash . . . awesome worship service. Think we were excited? You bet. Spending some time with Chris and Lou behind the stage after the concert was a chance of a lifetime as well; however, nothing […]
Psalm 23
For some thirty-one years, give or take a few here and there when the growing church plant worshipped in homes or in schools, we have enjoyed wonderful, moving worship in this what used to be a gym. Old pictures put these years in perspective, do they not? In many respects, much has changed. Gone are […]
Psalm 15
When you enter the presence of a powerful person, you expect there to be protocol. Right after Trump won the presidency, Vice President Pence’s Chief of Staff dealing with religious affairs contacted me. What did he want? He said Pence wanted to know if I would come down to the White House and pray for […]
Psalm 14 – Part 3
Before I moved to Virginia, I developed a side job of taking care of the homes of well-to-do people in Stockton, CA. I hand-picked the jobs because I knew they would pay well for my expertise, plus I would get to tend to landscapes worth tending to. One lady in particular lived in a mansion […]
Psalm 14 – Part 2
Last year I took Liz, my children and grandchildren to Disneyland in Anaheim. I love that place. Liz loves it because her grandfather and grandmother used to manage a hotel basically down the proverbial street. As a young girl, she and her brothers basically lived at the park when they visited their family. I love […]
Psalm 14 – Part 1
Does God exist? Non-Christian philosophers Anthony Flew and John Wisdom devised a modern-day parable to shed light on the age-old question of all questions in life. Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing growing side by side were many flowers and many weeds. One of the […]
Psalm 11
Despite the wonder of our freedom achieved by the many sacrifices during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), we are still fighting to keep the flame of freedom burning brightly because of persistent external and internal pressures based on radical egalitarianism, ill-founded, logically inconsistent , and/or godless worldviews and philosophical systems. We all sense and see […]
Psalm 10
Prior to his martyrdom at the hands of Nero, Paul gave believers a prophetic word about what to expect in the last days prior to Tribulation foretold by Jesus in Matthew 24. Here is what the wise, spiritually seasoned saint told us while writing on parchment to Pastor Timothy: 1 But realize this, that in […]
