by Mark Hamilton | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
In our own times of turmoil (what times aren’t?), the need for security seems acute. Without security, there can be no creativity, no nurturing, no healing. But where do we obtain security? Remember Henry Kissinger’s line, “Each success only buys...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our colleague Wendell Willis, who teaches New Testament, offered this devotional in worship yesterday. Our thanks for him for sharing it. If you have worshipped with very small churches, especially in mission contexts where there are only a handful of believers in...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Psalm 45 is one of those texts that means different things to different readers. It seems to have begun its life as an epithalamium, a poem for a wedding between an Israelite king and a foreign queen. Later readers connected it to Jesus, not just because they...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
After a bit of a break, this post marks a return to the Psalms. Welcome back! Reputation. The legend is that at his trial for cheating in baseball, Shoeless Joe Jackson was accosted by a young fan who said, “Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t...
