We are going to leave our study in the book of Acts this week to look at this psalm. This is a psalm of ascents, which means it was likely sung by Israelites as they neared Jerusalem on their way up to worship the Lord at an annual feast, such as Passover.

C.S. Lewis once said that joy is the serious business of heaven. Joy is not a mere happiness, but a profound, piercing longing that is beyond the world and found in God alone.

If you have your Bible with you, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 144. It’s a royal psalm; a psalm of David.

The massive cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline, which is only now being revealed by certain media types who were part of it, reminds me of a similar event more than a century ago.

In Revelation chapter 17, Babylon is pictured as a glamourous woman who is a harlot holding a cup full of abominations. Babylon is God’s way of depicting the world at its peak regarding allurements to sinful mankind.

If you have your Bible, turn with me to Psalm 143. This psalm is the last of what the church has called the penitential psalms.

In case anyone was wondering, Joe Biden is every bit as unimpressive out of office as he was in it.

Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in “Coriolanus” and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was “Fiorello!”, a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

We will return to our study in Revelation next week. This week, in John 20:19-23, we are considering the value of salvation. Who can put a value on salvation?

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 142. This psalm is what is called a complaint or an individual lament, which means that it is a poem about a distressing situation which a believer has encountered, and in that poem, the believer is offering a prayer, a plea, a help to God with no inhibition.

Last week, President Trump announced the establishment of a White House Faith Office. Its purpose, as described in a White House announcement, is to “…empower faith-based entities,

President Trump downplayed potentially empty store shelves at his recent cabinet meeting. 

In the book of Acts, the early Christians were called “people of the Way,” because Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.”

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 141. Jesus taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” or “the evil one,” …

For years now Mississippians across our great state have worked tirelessly laying the foundation for a new kind of economic and technological leadership, built on innovation and pro-business policies for the next-generation industries.

If Joe Biden effectuated his immigration policy without due process, why can’t Donald Trump do the same with his?

Before basketball’s 24-second rule, there was a tactic called freezing the ball.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 140. In this psalm, David is lamenting a specific situation or set of situations in which he finds himself.

The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “Paul Revere's Ride” begins, “Listen, my children ...”

In politics, creating and then owning the narrative is the best way to deceive the public, especially when a compliant media helps promote it and ignores later information that contradicts the initial narrative.