When All You Have is God
Near the end of Book 3 in the Psalms (43-89), several Psalms read like cries for help by writers at the end of their rope. In Psalm 86:14, for example, David writes: “O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.” While the exact circumstance is unclear, David knows there is a wide conspiracy…
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Popular Orthodoxy: A Quint of Quotes
Fellow travelers, Here is another “Quint of Quotes” from my collection. These five somewhat related sayings suggest the particular time and place we live in may not be very different from every other time and place. I hope you find them interesting and thought-provoking. “Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God…
Keep readingA Surprising Conversion: History for January 6
The following is quoted from Warren Wiersbe’s Be Alive commentary on John 3:14. “On January 6, 1850, a snowstorm almost crippled the city of Colchester, England, and a teenage boy was unable to get to the church he usually attended. So he made his way to a nearby Primitive Methodist chapel, where an ill-prepared layman was substituting for the absent preacher. His text was Isaiah 45:22 – “Look unto me,…
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Godly Habits for Leaders and Others
All the people benefit from leaders and rulers who fear God. In Deuteronomy, when God reluctantly says Israel may set a king over them in the future[1], He also required the king to have specific habits to cultivate a fear of God in them: “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the…
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Daily Readings for January 5 – 11
Fellow travelers: Continuing on from last year, each week in 2026 I will post 2 chapters to read per day as the main reading plan, and for anyone who wants to read the whole Bible in 2026, I’ll post the extra chapters to read that week. The main readings will include nearly all of the New Testament, plus Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Prophets, and a few other Old Testament books.…
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Oh, Taste and See!
In response to a reader suggestion, I’ve figured out what Bible verses quoted the most here and will write a series about those verses. Today’s post is #1 of a top 10 countdown, starting with the verse quoted the least out of the 10 most quoted, Psalm 34:8. “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” In my Accordance[1] Bible…
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Beware the Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Regular readers will know that I am a fan of Douglas Adams’ science fiction comedy novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams makes a comic art form of extreme absurdity, and one such creation is the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. In the book, intergalactic hitchhikers are urged to always travel with a towel, and among the reasons is that a towel is handy to wrap around your head…
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Forgetting What Lies Behind
Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians from a Roman jail, to encourage them to continue forward in the faith. In it, he wrote: “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made [Christs righteousness] my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ…
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Driving Toward Morning’s 2025 in Books
Dear fellow travelers, It’s become a tradition here to post what books I read during the year. This year’s total was 23, relatively high for me, but I read a lot of short books. Last year I noted that I read less books (16) because of my struggle to get through the over 900 pages of The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883). I still…
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Why Only Make Resolutions on New Year’s?
Fellow travelers, It will be 2026 in two days, so here’s an early Happy New Year! In this post, I’m sharing a variation on New Year’s Resolutions (and Lent) I’ve been trying to do personally for a while. It’s been helpful to me and might be to you. There’s probably already a book out there with a similar idea, but here’s mine, starting with some background: A while back I…
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Driving Toward the Morning Sun 