Grace is Sufficient

Day 17 Read Psalm 63 This Psalm was used by the early church as the “Morning Psalm” and was used at the beginning of each Sunday service....

Day 16 Read Psalm 57 When our daughter Addison was two she went through the normal mood swings of a toddler. One moment she was ecstatic...

Day 15 Read Psalm 51 Psalm 51, like Psalm 32, is one of the great confessional Psalms. The Church, and Israel before her, has used this...

Day 14 Read Psalm 46 John Calvin begins his masterpiece The Institutes of Christian Religion by saying that human beings “are never duly...

Day 13 Read Psalms 42 and 43 Fasting has been a traditional practice during Lent for centuries. When you deny your body food just for a...

Day 12 Read Psalm 37 Lent is a time of private, personal preparation and reflection. Most of the Psalms we will look at during these 40...

Day 11 Read Psalm 32 When Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, the first of the theses was, “Our...

Day 10 Read Psalm 24 Eugene Peterson begins his introduction to Genesis with this: “First, God. God is the subject of life. God is...

Day 9 Read Psalm 23 There is never any superficial idea that believing in God and following Jesus will ensure that life runs smoothly....

Day 8 Read Psalm 19 Dallas Willard begins chapter 3 of his book, The Divine Conspiracy, with these words, “To his (Jesus’) eyes this is a...

Day 7 Read Psalm 16 When our daughter Addison was a toddler she was not a cuddler. She would sit on our lap for a maximum of twenty...

Day 6 Read Psalm 13 Matt Redmond was one of the more popular contemporary Christian artists of the 1990’s. Churches all over the world...

Day 5 Read Psalm 9 Justice: Many of the Psalms are cries for God’s justice. In fact, the truth that God is a just God, is what keeps...

Day 4 Read Psalm 8 I spent two summers working at Glacier National Park in northern Montana. One summer I worked as an assistant manager...

Day Three Read Psalm 5 A common experience in the faith are moments when we wonder if God is paying any attention. We ask, “God are you...

Day 2 Read Psalm 2 I heard a missionary tell a story about showing the Jesus Film to a village in Central America. The Jesus Film was...

Day 1 Ash Wednesday Psalm 1 - Roots Read Psalm 1 two times. Psalm 1 is a comparison between those who have deep roots and those who do...

About a decade ago I put together a 40 day devotional for Lent. The devotional invites you to read 40 different Psalms from Ash Wednesday...

“You live long enough you understand prayers can be answered on a different frequency than the one you were listening for. We all have to...

Read Luke 7:36-50 Jesus is a frustrating conversationalist but he is never boring. For one, he regularly appears to be able to read what...