In the last post, we considered the rich imagery found in Psalm 46 — imagery that poetically and persuasively calls the people of God to take shelter in the shadow of the Almighty when the storms of life rage hard.  We saw that it was Psalm 46, in all its poetic and persuasive beauty, that…

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Do those words mean anything to you? Perhaps their translation into English might help: A Mighty Fortress is our God. Starting to ring a bell? Roughly ten years after nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg (1517), the famous German reformer, Martin Luther,…

Many Christians are deeply familiar with Jesus’ seven “I AM” statements found in John’s Gospel: “I AM the bread of life” (6:48); “I AM the light of the world” (8:12); “I AM the door of the sheep” (10:7); “I AM the good shepherd” (10:11, 14); “I AM the resurrection and the life” (11:25); “I AM…

Growing up, one of my favourite days of the school year was ‘Job Shadow Day’. It was a chance to step out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary by spending the entire day with a working adult, knowing that someday we, too, would be in those shoes. Have you ever realized that our weekly…