by Stuart | 9 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
We observed in Psalm 75 that the compilers of the Psalms often collected prayers in a deliberately thematic way. Recent psalms (73–75) appear to have been written around the time that Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians and share the broad theme of God’s judgement...
by Stuart | 6 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
We sometimes think of the Psalms as a disconnected collection of poems and prayers. While each Psalms, written by different authors at different times in different circumstances, was written as an individual prayer, it is clearly observable that the editors who...
by Stuart | 5 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
In 1993, Samuel Huntington wrote an article called “The Clash of Civilizations.” In it, he predicted that a time would come when the most significant source of conflict among human beings would not be political or economic but cultural. Stated another way, a time...
by Stuart | 4 Aug 2021 | Blog
Someone, possibly Charles Spurgeon, once said that there is a sermon in every flower. That is, if we pay close enough attention to nature, we can often find illustrations of biblical truth. Some illustrations are stranger than others—like the Temnothorax ant and the...
by Stuart | 4 Aug 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
Churches and Christian ministries have a tendency to adopt kitschy and punny names. It was predictable that, moving into the year 2020, every second church would have a conference or event playing on the idea of 20/20 vision. (My church was no different.) The joke was...
