Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Who knows, I might have commented on Psalm 23 numerous times. But it’s one of those texts we find ourselves coming back to over and over...

Backing up a couple psalms . . . The apostle Paul, in Romans 3, quotes from Psalm 14 in order to demonstrate that we, left on our own, do...

Interesting that this psalm of David – in which he testifies, “The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places” (16:6) – follows several...

Major themes are repeated over and over in the Psalms. Of course, this is what we might expect. The psalmists’, and our, experiences...

David declared, “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and...

Charles Spurgeon notes that this psalm’s “language well becomes the lip of a penitent, for it expresses all at once the sorrow, the...

I think I’ll close out the year with the Psalms. Today’s sermon at Baxter is from Luke 2:1-12: “What a Contrast! The Wise Men and...

Shedd understands the crowd to be inquiring of Jesus about “those more special and important acts by which the creature might secure the...

Jesus: “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Mark 10:15). Shedd rightly...

When I read the title of Shedd’s sermon -- “The Exercise of Mercy Optional with God” -- my first thought is (I’ll read it and see if my...

Of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Shedd says it “is one of the most solemn passages in the whole Revelation of God.” And he...

Someone close to me, many years ago, rejected biblical Christianity, especially Paul and his writings, because “They just try to scare...

Paul considers the plight of the Jew and the Gentile and concludes (in Shedd’s words), “In the day of judgment there will not be a...

The young man said to him, ‘All these I have kept. What do I still lack?’” (Matthew 19:20). Shedd continues to draw truths out of this...

“The young man said to him, ‘All these I have kept. What do I still lack?’” (Matthew 19:20) Shedd (“The Sin of Omission”): “The fact...