Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him… (Psalm 42:5, 11; 43:5) As sinful and prideful creatures, our tendency is often to turn to God’s help as a last resort, after we have exhausted our other options. We
Love Thyself
For no one ever hates his own flesh… (Eph. 5:29) I get very uncomfortable with drastic revisionist readings of Scripture, but this post is an attempt at one. And it is of a very well-known verse of the Bible. I
When God Cannot Be Fled From
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there… (Psalm 139:8) For many Christians, the doctrine of God’s omnipresence is a given, but the implications of this truth is not meditated upon enough. For the psalmist, God’s being
Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
“All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword” (Matthew 26:52). It is interesting to think about how the ancient gods are all long dead. Not that they were ever alive, of course, but they had the illusion
When God Cannot Be Found
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Psalm 22:1) As the pastor of a church that sings only the 150 Psalms of the Bible, one question that is often asked is, “Where is Christ in the Psalms?” And
Are there Such Things as Ghosts?
It is the time of the year again in which the subject of ghosts is, quite literally, a burning issue for those of us living in countries with people who observe the Hungry Ghost Festival in the seventh month