Why do the lyrics to Joy to the World include a line about every heart preparing room for the King of the world? I believe an appropriate response to this question is creatures who recognize we are subject to our King, cannot help but praise the One who came to tabernacle among his people. This […]
2021
Psalm 104: Creatures Who Are Deeply Loved
If you are doubting how loved you are, take this journey with me through Psalm 104. This reading adventure is worth your time, not because my words are meaningful, but because God’s Word is powerful. Listen to what he speaks to us through Psalm 104 as he communicates his love for his creation. Psalm 104 […]
Psalm 69: Trials and Suffering
Exactly how I felt It was the end of the 2020-21 school year when I took comfort in this psalm of David. His expressions of agony, exhaustion, and misery was exactly how I felt. 1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold.I […]
2 Peter 2: A Warning We Must Heed
In the past four months I continued teaching in a pandemic, had others mad at me for standing up for truth, fought to keep the Sabbath day holy within my family, faced much external strife, and failed at balancing my family’s calendar (we were way too over committed). It has been an exhausting 2021 professionally […]
Jeremiah 23, 28-29: False Prophets
Earlier this month, I had my students look at how the Lord describes lying prophets in Jeremiah 23 and 28-29. The point was for them to see we can describe today’s false teachers the exact same way. We must recognize the lies we are being fed. Lies, such as, do whatever you want and be […]