Someone once wisely observed that the phrase life insurance is a bit misleading. He explained that the only thing that life insurance insures is payment of a fixed amount of money at the time of death. Life insurance cannot insure that life will continue for a single moment. The only true life insurance is the…
It is my annual tradition to write a letter to the editor of our local newspaper at the time of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision that ushered in the era of legalized abortion in our country. This year my letter took the form of a tribute to…
What’s the best way to punish evildoers? Make the evildoers experience the wickedness that they had planned to inflict on others, in other words, give them a taste of their own medicine. The book of Psalms has a lot of passages where the psalmist asked God for this very thing to happen. Here are the…
Sometimes people mistakenly think that if we ask “Why” there is something wrong with our faith. We should just accept things and move on. But that’s not the way the Psalter puts things. There is a lot of asking why in the book of Psalms. We’ll start with one that our Lord himself used while…
“O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells,” Psalm 26:8. Going to the house of the Lord is never a burden in the book of Psalms, it is a joy. Psalm 27:4 says, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I…
There is no other book in the Bible that refers to eternity more than the Bible’s book of Psalms. Believe me, I counted them. I found at least 118 references to eternity, forever, and everlasting in the Psalter. Let’s start with a verse many will recognize, Psalm 23, verse 6: “Surely goodness and mercy shall…
No other book in the Old Testament has more references to Jesus than the Psalter, not even the great prophet Isaiah. Perhaps the most well known reference would be from the 23rd Psalm, “The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want.” One of the most beloved images Christians have of Jesus is as a…
About three or four times a year I stop whatever else I’m reading in my morning devotions, (usually something from Martin Luther), and take a month to read through the Book of Psalms. In my Bible it means that I need to read about three to four pages a day to get through the entire…
One of the numerous czars that our government has is the foreign aid czar. This czar presides over the money that our government gives to other countries across the globe. According to the web page foreignassistance.gov, our government is projected to spend $34 billion dollars in foreign aid next year, 2017. This money will be…
Quick, tell me what great achievements can you think of that our US government czars have accomplished? Say what? Having finished my 50-installment project on research that is going on in various universities in every state in the country I am embarking on a new project; taking a look at what kind of interesting things our…
