by Stuart | 28 Jul 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
Psalm 68 is not one in which many people find their life verse. You will not find many throw cushions embroidered with, “As wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God” (v. 2). Few will decorate the walls of their living room with stretched canvases...
by Stuart | 26 Jul 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
I am privileged to be a member of the church where accurate Bible interpretation is taken very seriously. Since we hold firmly to the authority of Scripture, we want to read and study it with a view to discerning what God has for us in the text. This exercise,...
by Stuart | 26 Jul 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
If you have been following these daily devotionals through the Psalms, you might have noticed a curious feature in recent psalms. From Psalms 60–67, with a single exception (64:10), the name Yahweh has been absent. The psalmists time and again refer to Elohim (“God”)...
by Stuart | 23 Jul 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
I recently heard a comedienne and actress talking about her third engagement. She has been twice married and divorced and is now preparing for her third—“and final,” she claimed—marriage. We live in a world in which divorce seems almost normative. We live in a world...
by Stuart | 22 Jul 2021 | Devotionals, Psalms
When I was a kid, there was a popular magic trick performed every year at our holiday Bible club: the magic sin box. The metal box with fitted with a removable lid and housed a wooden cube. Each side of the cube was painted a different colour with a different sin...
