Psalm 10: When God Seems Distant [Video]

It’s sometimes hard to get to church. I remember that when our children were small, Sue and I had quite a time getting all seven of them dressed and in our station wagon on Sunday mornings. Getting to church can be hard in another way, too. It can be hard to be ready...
End of the World as We Know It (part 1)

End of the World as We Know It (part 1)

If you hope to appreciate any of the theology of the New Testament, you have to understand the following: the writers of the New Testament believed they were living in the great epochal moments of human history. To put it more precisely, they believed they lived in...

The Glory of Your Kingdom [Video]

Worship is a central part, not only of the scriptural, Biblical, Christian experience, but also of the human experience. People all over the world worship. There is within the human heart a crying out, an acknowledgement that we ought to worship and bow down. We know...

Psalm 84: How Lovely is Your Dwelling Place [Video]

  The heart’s true home is in the presence of the living God. When we do not long for God’s presence, it’s a sign that our hearts don’t know what we need to become fully human. We looked at Psalm 84 recently at Kingsland Baptist Church, where I’m serving as the...

Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd [Video]

The trouble with having so many different Bible translations is that it makes it difficult for people to memorize scripture together. Psalm 23 might be an exception to this difficulty. Nearly everyone has heard the beautiful King James Version of this Psalm, and...

Psalm 24: Who May Ascend? [Video]

Psalm 24 is shorter than some the Psalms we’ve previously looked at in this series, and it has a fairly discernible structure. It begins with an echoing of the creation story from Genesis 1, (Psalm 24:1-2), moves on to talk about integrity, purity, and idolatry (Psalm...
Blessed Assurance: Am I Truly Saved?

Blessed Assurance: Am I Truly Saved?

My father was an amazing man. He died in 1986, and I miss him terribly. He was quiet, introverted, full of wisdom, and not at all ostentatious. Dad told me something that surprised me one time when I was in my late 20s. I had just received my doctorate, and I was...