How to recount another year gone by

One of the most unusually repetitive Psalms is Psalm 136. Every single verse, and there are 26 of them, ends with the exact same phrase: “for his steadfast love endures forever” God’s “steadfast love” is His “gesed” (that’s the Hebrew word), a very special word referring to the great combination of

A time for everything

So many things happen each day across the globe. God not only presides over every deed and event, but directs it all for a wonderful end. What Joseph said about evil men in Genesis 50:20, is true of each single event performed each day. Solomon wrote a poem with a brief

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22 An exercise in Bible reading

Sometimes reading the Bible feels foreign to us simply because of the strange way in which it was written. It was written for a by-gone people, living in by-gone eras. But, with a simple reading tip, most of that can be overcome relatively easily. Bible publishers have practised this tip