Psalm 7 and a Reflection
April 4, 2025
May your glory be laid in the dust.May you decrease so that He might increase. And may your delight in Him make you not even noticethe disappearance of your glory.
Psalm 117: Shortest Chapter in the Bible
April 2, 2025
The shortest chapter in the Psalms and the Bible is Psalm 117. It is also the middle chapter in the Bible with exactly 594 chapters before it and after it. Don’t go overboard with that observation. There is nothing inspired about the chapters of the Bible. But this is interesting–it is a Psalm centered in … More Psalm 117: Shortest Chapter in the Bible
The Expanding Christian Majority
March 31, 2025
The latest issue of The Voice of the Martyrs arrived today. There are pictures and stories of people being baptized in rivers and other places in Vietnam, Somalia, Ethiopia, displaced Somalis in America, others in South Asia, all turning their lives to Christ. Despite the mainstream media’s silence, independent journalists have been reporting for the … More The Expanding Christian Majority
Why I Read Old Books
March 27, 2025
Robert Coles was a Harvard professor who wrote a number of best selling books in the 1980’s and ’90’s on the moral development of children that shocked the educational establishment. In an article appearing in Christianity Today (Feb. 6, 1987) he made a number of observations that powerfully underscored my 50 year obsession with older … More Why I Read Old Books
The Long Game for Your Soul
March 27, 2025
Poet and essayist Heather Cadenhead publishes a monthly newsletter about her life as a writer and mother of two sons, one of whom is diagnosed with non-speaking autism. In an article titled, “The Road He Took: A Lenten Reading of Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’” contrasts the Frost’s “fork in the road” with the temptation of … More The Long Game for Your Soul
Reading Psalm 6 and a Reflection
March 27, 2025
I don’t know what I am grimacing about in the image frozen in the video, but, as I have said before, these videos are pretty raw. They are almost all recorded in the early morning hours, often when insomnia is keeping me awake, in one take and no script.
We Need Some Weeping Prophets
March 26, 2025
An African American pastor friend who I greatly love and respect from the Chicago suburbs called me a couple of days ago and asked me, an interesting question: “Who is the prophet to whom the modern culture can turn? No, that’s not it . . .” He was struggling to actually state what his real … More We Need Some Weeping Prophets
Help, I’m Not a Musician and I Need Some Music
March 24, 2025
Read Psalm 63 I have a songwriters heart and no talent for a musical instrument. Despite a grade school with three years of lessons, and a college class that I almost failed, the piano eluded me and both experiences were so traumatic, I never picked up another instrument. My Dad played the piano by ear. … More Help, I’m Not a Musician and I Need Some Music
He Speaks from the Dead
March 21, 2025
Robert Murray M’Cheyne had just returned from Israel in late 1839. He was a young man with health problems, and a warmer climate had been recommended for his recovery. He chose to go to Israel to enquire about the state of the Jewish people, using his health scare for the glory of God. In one … More He Speaks from the Dead
Psalm 5 and a Brief Reflection
March 20, 2025
All of these psalm videos are recorded around 4:30 in the morning in one take. I hope you can forgive the stumbles and lack of eye contact, but I hope each will encourage you to pursue the Psalms in your daily devotions. Up to this point, I have read the NASB95 translation, but in the … More Psalm 5 and a Brief Reflection
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