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Psalm 9 is one of those psalms that's easy to read straight through without realizing just how much is happening beneath the surface. On first reading, it sounds like a simple song of praise. Look a little closer, though, and you'll discover literar…

We often talk about having a "quiet time" as though it's as simple as flipping a switch. Phone off. Bible open. Coffee poured. But anyone who has tried to be still before God knows the silence outside us is often easier to find than the silence wit…

Today I drove back to Jamestown, Tennessee, to lead a memorial service for a woman from the church where I served as interim this past year. Somewhere along the highway, I made the mistake of turning on the radio. Within minutes I was swimming in …

There is joy and grief in the women's wing of the hospital new birth and chemo. Head right and there's the violence of malignancy,  Turn left and there are balloons, laughter and unbridled joy. But we all hold these things together at the same ti…

I suppose it happens to the best of us, but I’m pretty sure it happens to me most often. I wake up on Sunday and get ready for church. After dressing, I open the refrigerator and it happens. The refrigerator avalanche! Some items were stuffed into t…

salm 2: Above the Noise Conspiracies. Rage posts. Online battles. Verbal volleys. Bombs. Wars. It's the world we live in. The nations conspire.Leaders scheme.Kings, presidents, rulers rise and fall. And if we're honest, we do much the same in th…

Every day has two histories. There's the one you learned in school — wars, elections, inventions, the parade of dates and names that made the world what it is. And then there's the other one, running quietly underneath it. The history of ordinary, …