Psalm 17 is about focusing on satisfaction in God even amid our greatest troubles. We find the psalmist here in great distress, calling to God to vindicate him against the wicked. Psalm 17 records his prayer declaring that he was in the right against his enemies. This article addresses how…| The Heidelblog
I wrote this song around 15 years ago. It was probably one of my earliest attempts at writing lyrics after I began to seek the Lord, and looking back, it highlights what the Lord was doing in my heart. I …| Aliens and Pilgrims
“Keep your eye on the prize.” “Don’t take your eye off the ball.” We say these sorts of things for situations when we know that focus is extremely important. We miss hitting the ball when we are looking elsewhere than the pitch . . . Continue reading →| The Heidelblog
Building a fire requires balancing. Specifically, you have to balance the use of kindling with the use of longer burning fuel. Kindling gets hot and bright fast, but it also fizzles quickly and fades. Fire has to be fed by sustaining fuel. . . . Continue reading →| The Heidelblog
Since purchasing a home, the world of do-it-yourself repairs and upgrades has hit me hard in the face. I often find myself with a vague sense of how to complete the task in front of me, yet I know I cannot do . . . Continue reading →| The Heidelblog
We tread carefully when we enter an important space. Moses stopped cold and removed his shoes when he came near the burning bush. Israel’s high priests knew they stepped on hallowed ground as they entered the holy of holies. We too tend . . . Continue reading →| The Heidelblog
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving (Psalm 69:30). At first glance, the psalmist's declaration may seem strange. How does one "magnify" the omniscient, omnipresent, almighty God who holds the universe in his hand? In other words, how can anyone make an eve| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
Midrash Shocher Tov, the first section of Midrash Tehillim (on Psalms 1-118) produced between the third and eight centuries in Palestine.| Kotzk Blog
The middle part of our Bibles is called the poetic section or the wisdom literature. These books are for our hearts and souls. The things that we learn in reading […] The post Psalms and the Music of the Shepherd appeared first on GGWO Church Baltimore.| GGWO Church Baltimore
Learning Psalm 3:3 This weekend I’m in Halifax with my daughter, Grace. She’s attending Mount Saint Vincent University in the fall for a Masters in Gerontology. We reached out to a few local churc…| Hebrew Word Lessons
Written for an Images of Biblical Leadership DMin Class For class, I was asked to write a Psalm of Lament, following the standard lament formula of: Address, Complaint, Petition, Expression of Trus…| Strong Female Pastor
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. (Psalm 23:2) While it is true that we all have experienced what we might call "a good day" -- when the children are behaving, the sun is shining, our body is healthy, our spouse is agreeable -- these blessings from our benevole| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
The psalmist famously writes: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4). Francis Schaeffer, in his book The God Who Is There, references a tragic poem found with the body of a 23-yea| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want (Psalm 23:1). In less than ten words the psalmist David expresses the great confidence and sweet security of every believer: first, that Yahweh alone is Lord; second, that he guides and provides for those who put their trust in him; and, finally, that those| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
I’ve liked Thomas Tallis since boyhood. I was subjected to his work in spite of my native preference for Punk and Prog Rock, and learned to like it in spite of myself. In 1567 Tallis wrote 9 pieces for an Anglican Archbishop who needed English versions of the Psalms that met the standards of the […]| Truth and Tolerance
Questions to deepen our praise.| Seeking the kingdom
God saves those who trust him.| Seeking the kingdom
The final psalm in Book 3 is the low point of the Psalter. Jerusalem has fallen. Judah is captive to Babylon. There is no longer any nation to show the nations the wonder of belonging to God. The k…| Seeking the kingdom
How do you pray when everything falls apart?| Seeking the kingdom
How does Israel’s prayer for their king (Psalm 72) relate to us today?| Seeking the kingdom
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation (Psalm 42:5). Notice that this call to worship comes from David, to David. It is David confronting his own doubting, discouraged heart with the truth of who God is. We may| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
The old British divine Matthew Henry refers to the practice of praying God's Word back to God as "wrestling with God in his own strength." For this reason, I love to peruse the Bible for prayers to make my own. And one of my favorite passages to pray is Psalm 25. As we look forward to a new year, I| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! G| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
O Lord, you have searched me and known me! (Psalm 139:1) Notice two things from this brief statement. First, it recognizes the fact that God knows us, is intimately acquainted with us. Second, it is a prayer. It is a prayer from the psalmist, talking to God, and recognizing God’s ever-presence with| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart (Psalm 104:14-15). The psalmist is worshiping God for all his creative acts| JustinHuffman.org | The Online Home of Pastor Justin Huffman
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I have an intrinsic longing to be part of a team. I deeply love and crave the experience of walking and serving wholeheartedly with others. Yet it seems so much of my journey is one of solitude. I awoke at 2 am this morning with a deep sense of aloneness. I grappled in prayer over … Continue reading Alone With God Alone→| Listening to Him
Dust hung in the air. My skin was rough from living in this house for so long. The taste thick at the back of my mouth, though I was getting used to it. Somehow that was the scary bit. It was brick…| nuakh
Blessed is the man who does not walk within the wicked way; Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit where the scoffers stay.| Seedbed Psalter
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of earth together with rulers stand arraigned...| Seedbed Psalter
O Lord, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me! They say, “There is no help in God, There’s no deliv’rance for his plea.”| Seedbed Psalter
God, answer when I call to You, for You are all my righteousness; Be gracious, Lord, and hear my prayer, O give me hope in my distress.| Seedbed Psalter
Give ear to my words, O Lord, my deep groaning don't ignore. Hear and heed my pleading prayer, as I come and seek Your care.| Seedbed Psalter
O Lord, in anger don’t rebuke, In wrath, don’t chide or turn from me. Have mercy, Lord, for I am faint, My very bones in agony.| Seedbed Psalter
O Lord, my God in You I refuge take, Save me from those who would pursue my life. Like a strong lion they would tear and shake, Leaving no help in all my painful strife.| Seedbed Psalter
Lord, our Lord, majestic is Thy name throughout the whole wide earth; You display and set Your splendor o’er the heav’ns which show Your worth.| Seedbed Psalter
I will give thanks to God with all my heart; Tell of Thy wonders, and exult in Thee. I will be glad, sing praise unto Thy Name, O, Lord Most High, I sing and worship Thee.| Seedbed Psalter
Why, Lord, do You stand far away in times of trial and pain? The wicked ones in arrogance afflict the weak for gain.| Seedbed Psalter
In this post I share the poem I wrote during my CREW group at the WCCW Conference in California last week.| Another Fearless Year
I read Psalm 94 in my devotions this morning—one of the “imprecatory psalms” which prays for God to judge the wicked. After the last couple days I’ve had, I joked with my wife that I was praying it against Microsoft Windows. The imprecatory content of the psalm is a deep well I shall not plumb today; in any case Windows is not an “enemy” the way the psalmist meant it. The thing I noticed as I reflected on the psalm, though, was how much it did that is good and right for me to imit...| Chris Krycho
Thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed To thee, O Lord, I cried; and to the Lord I made supplication: “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness? Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to Me! O […]| Manifest Propensity
Pillars of Creation in Eagle Nebula (Messier 16) Devotion! daughter of astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad. ~ Edward Young (Night Thoughts, Night 9, l.769) WE previously posted comments by Scottish theologian and astronomer Thomas Dick (1774−1857) on the Religious Benefits of Astronomy from the Introduction he wrote to Elijah Burritt’s Geography of the Heavens. […]| Christian Platonism
The prayer book’s title, Mishkan T’filah, comes from this verse: “And let them build Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them” (Exodus 25:8). “Mishkan T’filah,” write Rabbis Elyse D. Frishman and Peter S. Knobel, editor and chair of the editorial committee respectively, “is a dwelling place for prayer, one that moves with us wherever we might be physically or spiritually.”| Slant Books
I grew up in the Churches of Christ, which traces their history through the Cane Ridge Revival of 1801 in Kentucky and back through Alexander Campbell to the schisms of the Presbyterian Church in S…| Ex-Church of Christ Blog
