David writes about the Lord delivering him from the hand of Saul in Psalm 18. This psalm is also recorded in 2 Samuel 22. I focused on Psalm 18:1-31 the other week noticing these 31 verses repeat truths which fall into one of four categories – who God is, what God does, what God has, […]
Hebrews 3-4: A Generation In Unrest
In Theology I Bible classes, we are studying the book of Hebrews. The author of Hebrews exhorted his audience to reject local Jewish false teachings, such as, the worship of angels. (This is why the entire first chapter is about Jesus being superior to angels.) To help my students make modern day application, I wanted […]
Prepare Him Room
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 […]
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 […]
2 Kings 22: The Lost Book
One of my former students asked me to write about marriage. I’m not sure if what follows is what she wanted, but here are my thoughts after celebrating eighteen years of marriage to David earlier this month. Like most things in my life, it all comes back to a particular book. At the center of […]
Jeremiah 1-10: My Life Is Not My Own
If there was only one thing my students and my own children could learn from me, I would want it to be this – the way of man is not in himself. Do you know how much headache and heartache we are saved when we follow God’s good and perfect law?! He gives us rules […]
Genesis: Let Us
Our human “let us” mindset is running rampant right now, but as I look at Scripture and history, the “let us” mentality has existed since Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden. Our first parents tried to usurp God’s authority and humanity has been doing the same thing ever since. A quick […]