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.

With Thanksgiving Day now in the rearview mirror and Christmas ahead, we are looking this week at a passage that sets thanksgiving in the context of what Christ alone can do for us. In Luke 11:11-19, we are given the account of 10 lepers who are healed by Jesus and their response.

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 120. This psalm is about a believer far from home and in great distress. Have you ever been a long way from home and under considerable duress?

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats, especially, but also some Republicans, fear a second Trump administration.

When we think of Thanksgiving Day, our minds usually run to the temporal mercies of God:

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 119. The psalm is broken down according to letters of the Hebrew alphabet. We have twenty-six; Hebrew has twenty-two.

The first recorded Thanksgiving was celebrated on December 4, 1619, at Berkeley Hundred, a plantation on the northern banks of the James River about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia.

There is a reason the Founders wrote Article 2, section 2 and clause 2 into the U.S. Constitution.

Revelation 12 begins a new cycle of visions the apostle John relates to us. This section continues to develop the themes of the previous sections of the book.

If you have your Bible, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 118. I want to look at three things today.

Fifty years ago when Ron Paul (father of Sen. Rand Paul) was running for Congress from Texas, a billboard featured an obese Uncle Sam with the caption “let’s put big government on a diet.”

If you have your Bible, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 117. It’s a short psalm but it’s filled with huge, worldwide truths. And as we read it, I want you to be on the lookout for three things.

 It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment,” “self-reflection” and “regret.”

As the Republican Party prepares to take control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida emerges as the clear choice for Majority Leader.

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 116 as we continue to make our way through the fifth book of the psalms.

What can a columnist do when his deadline is Election Day and he doesn’t know who has won the presidency and other offices (and we likely might not know for days, or more, if the polls are right about a virtual tie)?

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 115. I want to point out several parts of the passage as we look through it.

In the previous article, we observed that Revelation 11:15-19 is a passage that takes us into the future, when, after the last trumpet sounds, the consummation of Christ’s kingdom is accomplished in his coming again in judgment.

If Clark Kent had a twin brother he might resemble Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. That includes Johnson’s mild-mannered nature.

Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins-Butler has been a stalwart for the good people of Madison — even Madison County, — and she is asking for our prayers as she faces the biggest battle of her life.