We are going to leave our study in the book of Acts this week to look at this psalm. This is a psalm of ascents, which means it was likely sung by Israelites as they neared Jerusalem on their way up to worship the Lord at an annual feast, such as Passover.

In the letter to the church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13), the Lord Jesus says, “I have set before you an open door because you have kept my word and have not denied my name” (verse 8).

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 91, as we continue to work our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms.

What do you think President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response might have been if another nation had called on him to stop U.S. and Allied forces from taking Berlin and squashing the Nazi regime in 1945? Same question about President Harry Truman when it came to dropping nuclear bombs on Japan, prompting its swift surrender?

The two churches commended the most in the Lord Jesus Christ’s letters to the churches (Smyrna and Philadelphia) were both facing severe opposition.

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to the first Psalm in the Fourth Book of the Psalms, Psalm 90. We live in a world that moves at breakneck speed.

There are many reasons for the modern church’s loss of its prophetic voice, politics being just one of them.

The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley”

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 89. When you look at the first thirty-seven verses of this psalm, it looks like a praise psalm that you would meet at the end of the Psalter.

With all that is occurring in our political and cultural life, there are signs some Americans have had enough.

The church in Pergamum gets a mixed evaluation from the Lord in his letter to them (Revelation 2:12-17). The Lord knows the gloomy circumstances that they were in. The city is described as a place “where Satan’s throne is,” and where “Satan dwells.”

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 87. I want to concentrate on two parts in this Psalm. First, in verses 1 – 3, I want you to see this depiction of the city of God, the city that He has founded.

Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean?

Repetition while teaching children is a necessary tool that allows them to absorb information and to build on it for future understanding.

Revelation 2:8-11 is the letter to the church in Smyrna from the Lord Jesus. He tells the church he knows what they are going through:

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 85. This Psalm seeks to answer the question: What does a Christian do when he or she feels the judgment of God visit?

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”– Polonius to his son Laertes in “Hamlet”

It’s no secret that at the State Treasury of Mississippi, we believe deeply in financial wellness for every citizen. And if you give us the opportunity, we’ll scream it from the rooftops …

Easter is this coming Sunday, and it is good to remember the hope that the resurrected Christ gives to fallen men in a fallen world.

A mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow killed more than 130 people. With many others seriously or gravely wounded the number of dead is likely to rise.