This morning, I have been meditating on Psalm 57. It has been some rough sledding. Sometimes, a psalm screams at your soul and begs you to listen. Other times, wisdom has to be mined like diamonds from deep underground. So, after writing, thinking, and meditating for hours, I turned finally, to my shelves with more … More Diverted from Study by a Poet from 1930
The ‘prophet’ Amos is actually a shepherd from Tekoa, to whom God gave several visions of God’s soon-to-be-revealed judgment of eight nations, including Israel and Judah. All of these small ‘nations’[1] are being judged primarily for their unfaithfulness and cruel treatment of the poor. Their collective violence and lack of compassion for the needy has … More “Yet You Have Not Returned to Me?”
Purpose: God uses Amos to give a summons for justice. His purpose is to hold up the plumb line of His own righteousness against the crookedness of the people of God and shame … More Beginning to Study the Book of Amos
Actually, it is more accurate to say that they give up all the protections of freedom too easily. What are the protections of freedom? Things like: Freedom of speech Freedom of assembly Real borders A constitution A real separation of powers A limit on executive power Property rights that mean something And, easiest of all, … More Americans Give Up Freedom So Easily
This Sunday (January 5), I will be preaching at Pioneer Church in Rock Hill, SC. The pastor gave me a free hand, and the Lord has led me to a text in Matthew 4. After praying and reading the text for several days, I decided to check my files to see if I had ever … More Preaching This Sunday
Fishing pools, fishing trips, or fish catching or, mixing metaphors, fields, fruit, and harvest: are all different things. 18 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will … More Fishing Pools and Fishing Trips in the New Year
I’m putting this link here less for my readers and more for myself. I want to read it again and again. I know that I, like many others, have periodic delusions that I can write poetry, mostly drivel, but once in a blue moon, something genuinely good. This article brings me down to earth and … More Good Poets are More Thinkers than Exhibitionists
We are driving down the road together. The “we,” being my bride, who is driving, and me, the one who can no longer drive at night because my eyes don’t function without the brightness of day. We are listening to National Public Radio. People are telling stories for an audience that laughs and “oohs” and … More There are Stories that Make Me Weep.
Have you ever been falsely accused of something? Silly question. All of us have at one time or another. Sometimes it was minor. Sometimes it was life-altering. Always, it was painful. Even the Savior of the world was falsely accused which puts us in good company. King David wrote about his own “valley of the … More Without Cause
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