There's something about death that make everyone suddenly religious. Even an atheist will ask God for help (if he does, in fact exist) when death comes knocking at the door. There's one thing constant ...

“Behold I am sending you as sheep among wolves”, says Jesus, as he commissions the seventy-two disciples to be his representatives in Israel. In doing so he coins what we could call the defining ...

A Sunday school teacher said to her children, “We have been learning how powerful kings and queens were in the Bible times. But there is a higher power! Can anybody tell me what it is?” One child ...

A woman was found guilty in traffic court and when asked for her occupation she said she was a schoolteacher. The judge rose from the bench, “Madam, I have waited years for a schoolteacher to appear ...

Thanks for joining us to examine the three most quoted Psalms in the New Testament. A more comprehensive view is on this chart showing the chapters where the Psalm verses are quoted. Let's start with ...

Are you so busy, you feel you have 10 minutes or less for God most days? Spend them in the psalms. Need joy? Peace? Hope? A fitting way to express your feelings when others treat you unfairly? Turn to ...

It was with great anticipation that I read Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s latest commentary, “Psalms: A Companion Volume” (Kodesh Press, 2022). Like so many of his other books on biblical text, Rabbi Angel’s ...

Pope Benedict XVI used his Oct. 5 audience to revisit the theme of trusting in God during times of adversity found in Psalm 23—a message that he delivered twice at the beginning of September. “With ...

Thinking about the brand-new crop of graduates this year something occurred to me. They’re graduating in 2023. Psalm 23 is a great Psalm for them. It’s a great Psalm for all of us. It reminds us of ...

No matter how often he read Psalm 23, Emory Campbell never could understand that line. “I shall not want: What does that mean?” he’d ask himself. Then he joined a project to translate the Bible into ...