by Eric Spivey | Jun 30, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 18 – Psalm 16 Here we have another psalm by David, and in it David entrusts himself to God, confessing that he has no good whatsoever apart from him. That sort of absolute statement is a stirring and clarifying call to worship God and nothing else....
by Eric Spivey | Jun 30, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 11 – Psalm 42 At different times Psalms 42 and 43 have been read as one psalm or as two; 42:5, 42:11, and 43:5 are all the same refrain, so it was perhaps one long song. However, we’ll keep to the division as it stands and just look at Psalm 42 this week....
by Eric Spivey | Jun 24, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 4 – Psalm 13 David had a pretty prolific musical career for a king, considering he wrote about half of the psalms in the Bible. Read the story of David’s life in 1-2 Samuel and you’ll see that the sorts of ups and downs portrayed in his psalms were taken...
by Eric Spivey | Jun 24, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
“There is no more proper response to really seeing God as he is—transcendent beyond all imagination—than to be still and adore.” – Tim and Kathy Keller, The Songs of Jesus Psalm 46 is, in part, about Zion, the “city of God” mentioned in verse 4. Once the Temple...
by Eric Spivey | Jun 17, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
This week begins our new series in the Book of Psalms, and this specific psalm will help us begin at the end. If you read through all 150 psalms you’ll see every conceivable human emotion represented somewhere, from exquisite emotional highs to anguishing lows, and...
by Eric Spivey | Jun 10, 2021 | Acts
This week is the final week of our series; next week we’ll begin our summer series in Psalms. On Sunday, June 20, you’ll hear more about this, but be on the lookout for our Psalms daily devotionals for adults and students/kids. Here in Acts 17 we find Paul...
