The Song That Makes People Reject God
We must learn to approach difficult conversations not as God’s lawyers, but as witnesses to his character.
We must learn to approach difficult conversations not as God’s lawyers, but as witnesses to his character.
God always sees, always hears, always cares, always responds, always loves, and always wins—even if it takes a while; and sometimes it will.
Singing provides a subversive strategy in the face of sadness.
Confession is simple honesty before God that will lead to a life of integrity before others.
Some psalms lifts us out of the messy melody of today and show us the music of a lifetime.
Because Jesus is our righteousness, we can boldly sing, “Judge me, O Lord, by Your true righteousness.”
The trouble with the soul is I have no mirror to assess my condition. It takes a real, live situation to expose the soul.
Whether our situation is for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness or in health, the Psalms always redirect our attention, affections, angst, and emotions to God alone.
The trouble with cancelled sin is that it retains a form of rogue power and presence.
The Psalms gather up all of the glorious details from Scripture of the character of God and all of the dastardly depths of the human condition and combine them into a powerful concentrate.
Early Methodists believed a person could become so infused with the holiness of the love of God that sin would actually lose its hold on them.