by Mike Woodruff | Jul 31, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday. Awake, my soul. Awake, harp and lyre. King David, Psalm 57:8 David faced frequent danger. His response? He sang. Not always of course. But Psalm 57 suggests that singing about God’s glory was one of the ways he managed fear. If you’ve read the Psalms,...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 24, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday. We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world. John 4:42 I am hand-copying the Gospel of John – ten verses a day – and in the process noticing...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 17, 2020 | The Friday Update
Happy Friday. The Lord is my rock and my fortress. Psalm 18:2 The Psalms regularly refer to God as our refuge. David does so in Psalms 2, 7, and 18. In the Psalm 2, he finds comfort with God’s assurance of a good ending; in Psalm 7, he relaxes after reminding himself...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 10, 2020 | The Friday Update
“A broken and contrite heart you will not despise.” David, Psalm 51:17 If we are only broken, we slip into self-loathing; if we are only contrite, we become self-satisfied. Both are forms of self-absorption. The goal isn’t to think less of ourselves, it is...
by Mike Woodruff | Jul 2, 2020 | The Friday Update
Make every effort to be holy. Hebrews 12:4 I’ve been thinking about Achan recently. His greed – which pulled down his entire family (Joshua 7) – is being frequently cited in discussions about American’s collective guilt over slavery. Setting that issue aside, a...
