Psalm 131 Who is the most admired man in the world? Who is the most envied man in the world? For most people, is the most admired and the most envied man the same person? Why do people admire Billy Graham the evangelist and Mother Teresa who cared for the poor in Calcutta but envy…
Psalm 129 In our series on the Psalms of Ascent, we come this morning to an unpleasant psalm. It is particularly jarring for me because of the preceding psalm, a psalm of blessing. “May you have a beautiful and faithful wife who bears many children for you and may you live in peace and see…
Psalm 128 The Psalms of Ascent. Psalm 128 is the ninth of these psalms and for some of you, this will be the ninth time you have heard this. But for the sake of those who are new, let me explain. The Psalms of Ascent, Psalms 120 through 134, were psalms chanted or sung as…
Psalm 127 Friends have told me that here in Rabat, when I make a “to do” list, I should put some items on the list like “put on socks” just to make sure I can cross something off the list at the end of the day. I have many days that the end of the…
Psalm 126 When was the last time you were out-of-control excited? I mean yelling and screaming and slapping each other on the back and hugging excited. I’ve felt this way for sports events. I was a New York Knickerbockers fan (that’s a basketball team) when they won the championship in 1970. That one was frustrating…