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You don’t have to read many sermons to notice that at least some pastors are vulnerable to a kind of moralism that focuses on the “do’s” and “do not’s” of the Christian faith. We sometimes want to leap right to what God wants people to do before contemplating who that God is and what God…

Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The author of Psalm 62 is clearly under some kind of duress whose cause he hints at, but doesn’t specifically identify.  That lack of specificity makes this psalm’s sentiment something to which anyone under some kind of duress can relate.  Whether what harasses us is individual, communal or even…

Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The poet begins by professing, O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.  In doing so she recognizes that God knows human beings perfectly.  So the Lord doesn’t just know when people get up and when they sit down.  God even knows our most secret thoughts.  The…