Category Reading with M’Cheyne

Psalm 30 bears the superscription, “A Song at the Dedication of the Temple.” Scholars debate the provenance of these titles but without any just reason and it is best to take them as part of the inerrant Scripture. Psalm 30…

Do you ever wonder whether the good that you do will be noticed? Do you feel sometimes that there is no point in refraining from that sin because no one is around?  Paul reminds us in 1 Timothy 5:24-25 that…

Many of us spend our mornings at the gym or running the city streets or riding our bikes on local trials. We are very concerned to make sure that we stay healthy and fit, getting up at crazy hours in…

Perhaps the main reason that Paul writes this letter to Timothy is so that “you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God” (3:15). The church exists as “a pillar and buttress of truth”; it confesses…

What is the first priority of ministry? Many of us would say that it is the preaching of the World; we love to style ourselves “ministers of the Word.” It is striking that when Paul moves to direct Timothy about…

What would it be like to receive a letter from your mentor? Would you open it eager to hear what advice he would give? Would you open it worry that he might be a bit critical of your pathway? What…

“For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption”                                                 …

“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”                       …

What a shocking event!  Just after the consecration of Aaron and the acceptance of his first offering, his two sons are struck dead! Why? Nadab and Abihu offered incense to God apart from his command. This “unauthorized” or “strange” fire…

“Why?” is a question that only humans ask. There is something in the way God made us that requires us to understand, or seek understanding, for the course of our lives. A God-given sense of justice drives us to demand…