At the time of writing, my wife and I are in Argentina. It is the 2nd April and today is…
# 173 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 46 ‘The mother of all soap operas!’
I wonder why the twice repeated refrain in verses 7 and 11 says, The Lord Almighty is with us; the…
# 172 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 46. God our fortress.
Sometime around 1527-29 Martin Luther was inspired by his reading of Psalm 46 to write his now famous hymn, “A…
# 171 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 45 All glorious is the princess
And so, we come to the finale of this Royal Wedding Psalm. The theme in these last verses is fitting…
# 170 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 45. The supremacy of Christ.
6 Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a sceptre of justice will be the sceptre of your…
# 169 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 45 An identity crisis!
Ever had an “identity crisis”? One definition of this is, “a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s…
# 168 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 45. A royal wedding song.
Sometimes the introductions to the individual Psalms don’t tell us a lot, but the one at the beginning of Psalm…
# 167 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 44. Battle scars instead of punishment?
There was a young man that I knew in Pakistan when we lived there. He had been born a member…
# 166 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 44. It’s just not fair!
I was pondering whether, as a child, I suffered very often from the ‘it’s not fair’ syndrome. Maybe I did…
# 165 A journey through the Psalms. Psalm 44 “God has no grandchildren”
In the 1970’s I attended a church in Perth where the pastor’s gift was evangelism. I remember that on most…