Time and again throughout the Psalms, we read the plaintive question, “How long?”
A friend leaned over the table at Starbucks yesterday morning during a pre-work chat and confided, "You really don’t want to know...
O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way? Psalms 13:1 Psalm 13 is a desperate cry to God. It is an example of the...
Think about the people around you in your daily work. How can you pray for them?
I've been a Christian for almost half a century. I've sat through hundreds of sermons and delivered hundreds of my own. I've...
I am three years old, and I am hungry. I sit in a honey-colored wooden chair and press the small of my back up against its hard slats. My two brothers, my sister...
Throughout his ministry, Jesus had proclaimed the coming of the kingdom of God. For first-century Jews, this implied that a divinely anointed royal figure would soon expel the Romans from Judea.
Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God! Psalm 43:5 If Psalm 43 seems strangely...
But I will keep on hoping for your help; I will praise you more and more. Psalm 71:14 Psalm 71 is a prayer for deliverance offered by an unnamed poet who has repeatedly...
