Sometimes it is the anger and pride of others who would entangle us in their arrogance, foolishness and deceit. Sometimes it is our own ange...

Having begun in repentance , and with our eyes lifted up in hope , there is now joy at the invitation to go up to the true home of the heart...

Having begun in repentance (see Too Long Living In A Land With No Peace ), the journey of The Pilgrim Psalms proceeds to having hope, the l...

The Bible does speak about the “wrath” of God. But it is a wrath against sin, not against persons. God did not send His Son into the world ...

As we enter the season of Lent, it is very like the journey of The Pilgrim Psalms . It begins in repentance, an awareness that we have for t...

It seems almost a cruel trick for Ash Wednesday to fall on St. Valentine’s Day. One is the remembrance of our mortality, the other of love. ...

Praise be to the LORD,     who has not let us be torn by their teeth. We have escaped like a bird from the fowler's snare;     t...

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “Thi...

Blessed is the one     whose transgressions are forgiven,     whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one     whose sin the LORD does...

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day...

Rend your heart and not your garments. (Joel 2:13) “Rend your heart,” says Joel, “not your garments.” Rending, or tearing open, the garment ...

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It i...

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. (Matthew 6:9) Israel had profaned the name of the LORD by breaking covenant with him, turning f...

Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. (Matthew 4:11) After three failed attempts to ensnare Jesus, the devil left, havi...

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will gi...

Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “...

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was...

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungr...

Matthew and Luke tell us that Jesus was “led” by the Spirit out into the wilderness. Mark says that the Spirit “sent” or “drove” Jesus ...

At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild a...