In 1 Timothy, the Apostle Paul greets Timothy with a blessing of “grace, mercy, and peace” and later marvels at the reality that an opponent of Christ and Christians like himself would “receive mercy” from the glorious Lord Jesus Christ…
As I’ve been studying this week’s stanza of Psalm 119, the psalmist’s words “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes” reminded me of the melancholy poet William Cowper’s beautiful stanza in “God…
Film maker Walt Disney was ruthless in cutting anything that got in the way of a story’s pacing. Ward Kimball, one of the animators for Snow White, recalls working 240 days on a 4 1/2-minute sequence in which the dwarfs made…
START ON THE SUNDAY PRIOR TO EASTER SUNDAY This is Palm Sunday because people laid the branches in his path. Read Luke 19:28-42 and Zechariah 9:9. Reflection: How often do you praise God for coming into your life? MONDAY: Read about Jesus at…
In September 2017, when Jess and I first visited Lassen Volcanic National Park, we challenged ourselves to climbing the menacing volcano Mount Lassen and trekking out to the remote Chaos Crags. The next summer, we felt we had earned a…
In this week’s section of Psalm 119, we’ll encounter the wonderful reality that God’s Word gives us freedom, but what is freedom according to God’s perspective. I think John Piper offers us a helpful and biblically informed definition of this…