Psalm

From the series: Summer in the Psalms: Vol. 5

Psalm 133 opens with a simple declaration: how good it is when God's people dwell in unity. But unity is more than showing up in the same room. It's a shared identity in Christ, a shared commitment to one another, and a shared mission to a world that desperately needs the gospel. When those three things come together, something remarkable happens. Come see what that looks like.

From the series: Summer in the Psalms: Vol. 5

Psalm 147 opens and closes with the same call: praise the Lord. But the psalmist isn't commanding praise because God is needy or easily angered. He's pointing to something more surprising. The benefit of praise runs in the opposite direction we might expect. God doesn't need it. We do. Praise reorients us toward the God who is both sovereign over the stars and personal enough to bind up broken hearts.

From the series: Summer in the Psalms: Vol. 5

Time and money tell the truth about worship better than words do. Psalm 138 pushes us past surface-level praise to ask what we actually bow down to. David points to God's steadfast love and faithfulness as the fuel that makes wholehearted worship possible. When we understand who God is, not just what he gives, adoration follows naturally. The character of God is what draws the heart in.

From the series: Summer in the Psalms: Vol. 5

Most of us handle personal failure one of two ways. We dismiss it entirely, or we try to perform our way out of it. Neither works. Psalm 130 cuts through both of those dead ends and lands somewhere better. The psalmist looks directly at his own sin, then looks directly at God's forgiveness, and finds the boldness to keep going. That same path is open to us.

From the series: Summer in the Psalms: Vol. 5

Psalm 107 was the psalm the Pilgrims turned to when persecution drove them from Europe and across an ocean. It has anchored people in some of the hardest seasons in history because it does something rare: it speaks to every season, not just one. Whether you feel lost, trapped, broken by your own choices, or simply worn out by a busy life, this psalm calls you back to the same foundation. God has not forgotten you.

Ever freeze up, not knowing what to pray? You are not alone. How the Psalms can give us words for God when our own run out.

You already memorize song lyrics and sports stats without trying. A nudge toward giving that same heart-space to the word of God.

Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I might not sin. A devotion on Psalm 119 and a life transformed by loving God's word.

Meditate on God's word day and night. A devotion on Joshua 1:8 and the kind of leadership that grows from a life soaked in Scripture.

On the night before the cross, Jesus sang. A look at the Hallel psalms he sang with his disciples and what those words meant on that night.

We recently were asked a great question concerning the death of Jesus and what happened to him after his death. Did he go to hell for three days? Where was Jesus? I think the quick answer for that…

This is a big question. It affects all of us, because all of us at some point will go through crisis. James tells us that in James 1, "consider it all joy when you go through crisis", not if you are…

When God seems silent, Psalm 77 gives words to the struggle. How Asaph worked through unanswered prayer and found his confidence in God again.