We are going to leave our study in the book of Acts this week to look at this psalm. This is a psalm of ascents, which means it was likely sung by Israelites as they neared Jerusalem on their way up to worship the Lord at an annual feast, such as Passover.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

If you have your Bible, I will invite you to turn with me to Psalm 150.

In Psalm 103, the subject of David’s song is, “Bless the Lord O my soul.” If we want to be joyful and blessed, then we must set aside time to bless the Lord.

The brutalist federal buildings that have blighted Washington, D.C., for decades deserve the same fate as Carthage after the Third Punic War, and the nation’s capital is finally beginning to move on from these concrete monstrosities.

Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal did a rare story on the Ukraine war, though it was buried on page A 10, after a front-page teaser.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 149. This psalm is so clearly set in the context of some great, late, Old Testament victory that God has provided for His people, and it gives us, as believers, living under the glories of the new covenant, ample instruction for the praise of God. And I want to look at this psalm especially from the standpoint of the new covenant, especially from the standpoint of our privileges as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word “badass” was bandied about a lot after the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump last year.

In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time.

In Revelation 19:11-21, John sees visions of the spiritual realities regarding the coming of Christ in glory and judgment.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 147. Matthew Henry once said, “In singing this psalm, it’s easy to apply it to ourselves both to personal and national mercies. Were it but as easy to do so with suitable affections.”

Not only was President Joe Biden in serious decline, Karine Jean-Pierre — celebrated in numerous fawning media profiles — was a rotten White House press secretary.

ChatGPT is coming for your job.

After many years living in and covering Washington, there is one overriding principle I have learned: If you don’t trust politicians you will never be disappointed.

The first time Christ came into the world, he came in humility and in the weakness of our nature.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 146. These final psalms supply us with the substance of the praise that we will be giving to God forever.

Mary Evelyn (Cleugh) Hand, 85, of Madison passed away peacefully of natural causes on May 25, 2025. 

The Scripture compares the love relationship of Christ and his redeemed people to a bridegroom and his bride.

If you have your Bible, I’d invite you to turn with me to Psalm 145. This is the last of the psalms of David.

While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting “free Palestine” and “I did it for Gaza,” outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old off-Broadway musical “The Fantasticks” – “You wonder how these things begin.” That song speaks to the love between a boy and a girl.