Life is what you choose to make of it. Living soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age does not occur accidentally. It requires flint-like (Isaiah 50:7), steadfast (Luke 9:51) determination. Godly living is achieved via the backbone, not the wishbone. Send article…
Psalm 101 describes how genuine righteous leadership is possible. Just as Paul would state about a thousand years after David (in Acts 20:28), righteous leadership requires two basic things: Send article as PDF
Give Thanks For the child of God, thanksgiving is to be a continuous occurrence. God commands His children “in everything give thanks” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). Psalm 100 gives seven reasons for thanksgiving. The first four are found in verse 3—”Know that the Lord, He is God; it…
The placement of Psalm 100 in the book of Psalms is most appropriate. A consistent thread running through Psalms 92-99 is the sovereignty of God. “You, Lord, are on high forevermore…The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty…the Lord is the great God, and the great King above all gods…Say among…
A distressing fact of modern culture is the widespread cancer of disdain for God and holy things. Profaning the sacred is a sickeningly popular sport among the foolish. Irreverence is a certain path to perdition. Send article as PDF
Boredom is serious spiritual quicksand. The rut of “going through the motions” is unbecoming worship of the great I AM. Throughout human history, spiritual boredom has prompted worship innovations. To solve the malady of boredom, humanity tends to try to increase its interest and…
“The Lord reigns” (Psalm 97:1) is either a truth of immense comfort or extreme terror. Send article as PDF
Jehovah’s extreme superiority to humanity is seen in Paul’s declaration that God “is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20). God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and our ways are not His ways (Isaiah 55:8); in…
Balance scales—two plates attached to an overhead beam—have been a part of human history for at least 4,000 years. An innumerable multitude of business deals has been transacted because of this simple device. Send article as PDF
Humanity is a creature that lives in the parentheses within eternity called time. Because of this, we talk in three tenses—past, present, and future. In Psalm 96, each tense of time is acknowledged as containing a reason for joyful worship of Jehovah. …
