Kirk E. MillerRomans 8:28 is perhaps the most powerful promise in all of Scripture. But it’s also perhaps the verse most easily misapplied to hurting people. Despite good-intentions, it has been used to dismiss pain, rush the broken toward a “silver lining,” or...
Alastair RobertsIn the book of Psalms, we encounter Scripture in a distinctive form. It is written in order that we might sing it and that, through song, its words might become our own. Song glorifies speech. Habitually singing the Word of God teaches us better to...
Jill FirthHow can Gollum, hyperlinks, and product placement help us to understand why there are lament psalms at the end of the Psalter? A popular generalization about the Psalter is that it moves in a trajectory from lament to praise, and from psalms spoken...
David HeimannAt one point in the famous allegory Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian finds what he thinks is a more agreeable path to the Celestial City; but this choice puts him in the grips of the savage brute Giant Despair, and he finds himself locked in the...