Yesterday afternoon all along the main drag of our town, every tree and every pole had white and blue ribbons tied to them. They were in recognition of the release of Otto Warmbier, the young man who was just released from prison in North Korea. […]
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Psalm 12 – Chalk
I’ve been reading through Psalm 12 for over a week now. Initially my focus as I read was on verses 6-7: The Lordʼs words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined. […]
Psalm 9 – Something Wonderful
I will thank the Lord with all my heart! I will tell about all your amazing deeds! I will be happy and rejoice in you!I will sing praises to you, O sovereign One! When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you. […]
Psalm 6 – Sight
My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies. – Psalm 6:7 There is a theme in these early Psalms about struggles and finding God through those times. There are many laments of asking God where God is at. Psalm […]
Imago Scriptura 110 – Jeremiah 48-49 – Silence & Gravel
This morning did not feel like a day to go for my normal workout at the gym. After sitting in with one of the small groups at church early this morning, I went for a long walk around a park to pray, to listen, to chew […]
Imago Scriptura 108 – Jeremiah 32-33 – Overcoming
So, last night I was up until the end of that crazy World Series game 7. I didn’t have a huge rooting interest in either team but the game was too good to turn off. I definitely would have kicked myself if I had gone […]
Imago Scriptura 101 – Isaiah 9 -Hope
So often this passage from Isaiah 9 is read in connection with Advent and Christmas – the looking ahead to the coming Messiah, but I heard this passage in a different way this morning… The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; […]
Imago Scriptura 81 – Psalms 51-53 & Romans 2 – Upside Down
So, I took this picture laying on a rock on the boulder field below Devil’s Tower while leaning my head backwards. Why? Because I thought it would be good to do – the kids thought I was crazy. But it captures something for me about […]
Imago Scriptura 77 – Psalms 23-25 – Promise
I have been blissfully ignorant of a lot of things that have happened in the world the last 7-10 days or so. I’ve stayed offline a good bit and especially the last 5-6 days, I have had extremely limited internet access. Upon coming to a […]
Imago Scriptura 69 – Job 19:25-27 – Glimpses
In the midst of the dialogues between Job and his friends and in the midst of the “piling on” that I wrote about, we come to probably the most well known of the passages in Job. After all, it forms a significant part of Handel’s […]
Imago Scriptura 60 – Choice
Today was a day of struggle with the Scripture passages, especially in light of the shootings in Orlando yesterday. The horrificness of what took place has stayed with me all day today (side note – I also kept getting this message throughout the day about […]
Imago Scriptura 44 – Whisper
Reading yesterday’s passage from 1 King’s 19-20, I thought of myself and my experience the last several years. We read in 1 Kings 19 of Elijah fleeing the attacks and persecution of King Ahab. In 19:10, Elijah responds to the Lord with this, “I have […]
