Psalms devotions
Sin, the Teacher (Psalm 78)
Recently, a discussion arose in a particular Facebook Group over the history and validity of slavery in the United States. Some were arguing for its utter perversity. Others were claiming that it was not as bad as it is made out to be. In the midst of this debate, one...
Remember, Remember (Psalm 77)
Jennie Evelyn Hussey was an accomplished poet a young age. She spent much of her youth cheerfully caring for her invalid sister, frequently referring to this service as the cross that God called her to take up daily. In her middle-aged years, she herself suffered...
Deceptive Appearances (Psalm 76)
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...
God’s Perspective in Prayer (Psalm 75)
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...
Thinking Theologically (Psalm 74)
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...
Until (Psalm 73)
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...