Our church is reading through John’s Gospel leading up to Easter, and my chapter summaries in John will follow the reading schedule available here. We welcome you to read along with us. Introduction to John John wrote his account of Jesus’ ministry much later than the others, approximately 30-50 years later in the early A.D. […]
Psalm 41 is the final psalm in the first volume of the entire Book of Psalms. It begins with the phrase “Blessed is” as the parallel bookend to Psalm 1:1. (Psalm 32 is the only other psalm in this volume to begin with this phrase.) It also appropriately ends with a doxology of praise to
Psalm 34 provides a definite time when David wrote it, “when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, causing the king to send him away.” This story can be found in 1 Samuel 21. Running from King Saul, David went to the Philistine city of Gath. When they discovered who he was (the hero who
