in Psalm 22, we find a remarkable link between the divine covenant with Israel and the moral well-being of the afflicted.

This psalm practically shouts at us to stop and think about what “God” means to us.

In this Psalm fear is an action of the heart, not a survival-mode reaction of the emotions.

In this passage, earth meets heaven, and the Jesus of History meets the Christ of Faith.

It is a thunderstorm of grace: we are shaken by it, and find at its heart a remarkable peace.

Psalm 126 is known in scholarship as a “Song of Ascent” (shir ha-ma’alot in Hebrew) – chanted by happy pilgrims on their way up to the mountain-city of Jerusalem.

Each and every one of us is a “child of Adam and Eve,” a human being of infinite worth

What is our responsibility, as readers of the Bible, when we find passages that glorify or normalize injustice?

The Nearness of a Personal God.

Should we fear God?