This is something I wrote last November for a personal blog… As I sat at Starbucks this morning, trying out the new Thanksgiving brew from the new Christmas cups, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between two couples about their sons and baseball. Essentially, they were conversing about their sons’ involvement with travel baseball… Continue Reading
I sat there as a scrawny 7th grader holding my breathe as my soccer coach announced the most valuable player on the team…would it be me? No…that year I received the “Hustle” award. Basically, I tried really hard, but wasn’t the best. Even though the Jr. High soccer team I played for did not really… Continue Reading
Psalm 39 What Is the Measure of My Days? To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 1I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” 2I was mute and silent;… Continue Reading
Psalm 38 Do Not Forsake Me, O LORD A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. 1O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! 2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your… Continue Reading
Psalm 37 He Will Not Forsake His Saints Of David. 1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! 2For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. 3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself in… Continue Reading
Psalm 36 How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love To the choirmaster. Of David, the servant of the LORD. 1Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. 3The… Continue Reading
Psalm 35 Great Is the LORD Of David. 1Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! 2Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! 3Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” 4 Let them be… Continue Reading
Psalm 34 Taste and See That the LORD Is Good Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. 1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the… Continue Reading
Psalm 33 The Steadfast Love of the LORD 1 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. 2Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 4For… Continue Reading
Take a trip to the beach, the gym, or even to the supermarket and it doesn’t take long to see that our culture has made an idol out of “the body.” People spend hours trying to make their body look chiseled, tanned, blemishless, the right shape, and fit. From the rave of 100-Calorie snack packs… Continue Reading