Psalm 106 – Part 2
I loved to attend the annual country fair in the Imperial Valley as I grew up. The rides couldn’t have been better, the exhibits were fun, and who doesn’t love cotton candy? One ride I’ll never forget looked like an old Spanish pirate ship. As you entered the door located in the side of the […]
Psalm 106 – Part 1
The young lady we’ll call Tracy stood out as one of the leaders of my first youth pastoral position in San Diego. She was smart, funny, perceptive, cared for people, and in love with Jesus Christ. For her, promise and hope for a great life lived for God with maximum impact on others seemed like […]
Psalm 103
How do you stay positive when you face so many negative challenges each day? It is a place you need to get to because if you don’t, the negative trials will sandblast your soul, leaving you depressed, feeling you do not have life purpose, and possibly even defeated. David is a godly man we […]
Psalm 96
Lelia Morris (1862-1929) was quite the woman and wife. As she cleaned the house, new melodies for Christ just bubbled out of her soul. She would stop and write down the lyrics and eventually put them to music. At the end of her life she had written lyrics to 1,000 hymnic pieces. You read that […]
Psalm 95
Several years ago Liz and I had the pleasure of seeing a Cirque du Soleil act in Orlando. I must say, the acrobatic, other-worldly ability of these well-fit people blew me away. No matter what feat they attempted to pull off, one word kept popping up in my mind: balance. Here is a video as a case […]
Psalm 91
Several years ago as Liz and I walked the beautiful mall downtown D.C., an ominous storm appeared out of nowhere. Before we knew it, blinding rain pelted us, lightning strikes etched the sky, as thunder sounded like bombs going off. What did we do? We, along with everyone else, ran as fast as we could for the park’s […]
Psalm 84
People can be passionate about the most amazing things. Consider how some folks view their cars as rolling billboards regarding ideologies they hold near and dear: What do you think this person is sold out to? I’m thinking they don’t think too much of the Air Force, Navy, Army, or Coast Guard. What would you say? Here’s another: I guess this person is […]
Psalm 81
How important is it for you to corporately worship the living God? Jesus educates us when He took the disgruntled, envious Pharisees to task on the glorious day of His triumphal entry into Jerusalem: 37 As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples […]
Psalm 74
What are God’s people to do when their institutions are devastated by ruthless enemies? How should Christians respond when the culture implodes and into the power vacuum steps ideologically driven people bent on silencing the Church, the voice of truth and morality? In January of 1933, Hitler was basically a low-level politician nobody really listened […]
Psalm 73
Some questions, based on how God deals or doesn’t deal with various people and issues in your life, can become like a cancer eating away at your once vibrant faith. Yes, when God doesn’t act in a fashion you expect based either on what you know about Him or in relation to what you feel […]
Psalm 56
When you are in a threatening situation, the last thing you want to do is freeze up in fear. Take a young, single woman in my last church as a case study. Driving along a levee road near water which was over 30 feet deep, she suddenly had a blowout. Immediately, her car careened off […]
Psalm 55
I mentioned the old hit Backstabbers last week by the O’Jays, and only a handful of people remember this song and this tune. It’s worth recalling the lyrics since many of us have faced, are facing, or will face those people who oppose you for your Christian walk, thinking, and stance. What they do . […]
