by Timothy Shorey | Oct 7, 2020 | Devotional Reflections, Mission and Missions, The Christian Life, The Church
In a time when believers all too often view faith as a means to personal comfort and even prosperity and ease, more than as a call to war against the world, the flesh, and the devil, we do well to recall biblical images of valor; examples of enduring courageous...
by Timothy Shorey | Oct 3, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
Interrupting Our Regularly Scheduled Post [The following is excerpted from a longer article, “Seeing Christ in the Psalms”. This is offered today in place of our next Psalter installment to help believers read (and sing) the Psalms to greater effect. God-willing,...
by Timothy Shorey | Sep 30, 2020 | The Christian Life
A Whisper into the Wind The world has a million microphones and they’re all in use. I confess that as a pastor I sometimes hear my voice as one little hand-held low-wattage mic up against a million; a faint whisper spoken into a 150 MPH headwind. The volume, the...
by Timothy Shorey | Sep 26, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
“You will find this same psalm over in Psalm 53, with hardly any alteration. Why is this? Did the Holy Spirit take such special notice of the sayings and deeds of a fool, that one expression of them was not enough? Or are the babblings and madness of a fool so...
by Timothy Shorey | Sep 23, 2020 | The Christian Life
What Panic Feels Like I now know what an actual panic attack feels like, and I hope never to feel it again. But I do want to write about it in the hope that others might find a little help from it. Minimally, some might be comforted just in knowing that they are not...
