John Fry, writing in 1842, said of Psalm 1, "I have been induced to embrace the opinion of some of the ancient interpreters (Augustine, Jerome, etc.), who conceive that the first Psalm is intended to be descriptive of the character and reward of the JUST ONE, i.e. the Lord Jesus." I am inclined to agree, though with...
In what do you most truly delight? What experience, what stimulus, what opportunity fuels your heart's desire and satisfies your soul's deepest longing? What provision in the world would leave you the most crushingly devastated were it lost to you? What in your life, by simple virtue of what it is, by its own intrinsic...
Mark 14:12-31 (ESV) 12 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 13 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a...
Mark 14:1-11 (ESV) 1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 2 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” 3 And while...
Psalm 1:1-2 (ESV) 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. I've been pondering what Psalm...
I often find myself turning to the Psalms, especially when I feel confused, distressed, or overwhelmed. The words of this ancient hymn book lead me to the throne and the One seated there, the One who is an ever present help in time of trouble. In this season of isolation and divinely imposed Sabbath, I...
Heavenly Father, I know they are there, but I cannot see them. They are the sheep of your fold, the delight of your heart, they are the Father’s gift of love to the Son and the Son’s honor to the Father. They are those over whom you delight with singing having transferred them form the kingdom...
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This article appears in the Cook County News-Herald Spiritual Reflections Saturday March 28, 2020. I am writing this column at 10:51 in the morning on a bright, sunny, beautiful Tuesday morning March 24, 2020. The snow in the parking lot outside my office window has begun to melt revealing tire stripes of dark, smushy, gravelly mud....
The announcement of Kenny Rogers' death at 81 reminds me of the inevitable certainty set before every one of us. We are uncertain of many things in this day of global pandemic, but of one thing we may be absolutely certain--a day will come, sooner than we might wish, when our name will replace Kenny's...
