Grace is Sufficient

"Bettering the world by being in it." Leif Enger - I Cheerfully Refuse There is a moment in Leif Enger’s new novel, I Cheerfully Refuse,...

“You are the salt of the earth…you are the light of the world.” Jesus in Matthew 5:13-14 April 2024 How would you answer the question:...

March 2024 Years ago, a church I was a part of did a small group study of a book called, The Question of God. It was written by a Harvard...

36 And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” Mark 10:36 February 2024 At dinner the other night our kids were sharing...

December 2023 Ben Patterson tells a story of a Sunday dinner at his grandma’s house when he was eight years old. A huge roast of beef was...

The way God works in my life is most often through what I am currently reading, studying, teaching, and thinking about. This isn’t...

Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. He who...

Every month I write a newsletter for Union Park Presbyterian Church. I thought I would share them on the website. "Who one believes God...

Day 40 – Holy Saturday Read Psalm 145 Between Jesus’ death on Friday and his glorious resurrection on Easter Sunday there was a Sabbath...

Day 39 – Good Friday Read Psalm 22 The beginning of Psalm 22 is quoted by Jesus on the cross. “My God, my God, Why have you forsaken me?”...

Day 38 – Maundy Thursday Read Psalm 142 God hears the cry of the oppressed and the afflicted. He hears both corporate cries, like the...

Day 37 – Wednesday Read Psalm 139 Psalm 139, like Romans 8, John’s prologue to his gospel or Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal sons in Luke...

Day 36 Tuesday Read Psalm 136 Worship is never simply a command in the Bible. We are often commanded to worship; Psalm 136 begins, “Give...

Day 35 Monday Read Psalm 130 I was recently reading a brief biography of Martin Luther. As a young priest Luther was overcome with...

Day 34 Saturday Read Psalm 127 “The first great fact which emerges from our civilization is that today everything has become “means.” ...

Day 33 – Friday Read Psalm 126 Eugene Peterson translates verse 2 like this, “we laughed, we sang, we could not believe our good fortune.”...

Day 32 Thursday Read Psalm 121 Psalm 121 is the Psalm that I read most often when I am visiting people in the hospital. The promise that...

Day 31 – Wednesday Read Psalm 118 Psalm 118 is another Psalm the early church used extensively to describe the ministry and mission of...

Day 30 Tuesday Read Psalm 115 One of the great truths of the Bible is that we become like what we worship. There is something about...

Day 29 Monday Read Psalm 110 Psalm 110 is one of the most quoted Psalms in the New Testament in reference to Jesus – it is directly...