The tabernacle and temple in the Old Testament were the places where God lived with his people, revealed himself to them, and forgave their sins. Jesus claimed to be this new temple – the place where God lives, reveals himself, and forgives sins. Then, in Jesus,...
Psalm 22 starts out famously with the Cry of Dereliction: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me," the cry of the crucified Son of God at the moment when he stands alone in the abyss of hell for the sake of humanity. But it miraculously ends with a...
Suffering forces us to question everything – what does suffering mean, what's causing it, and what's its purpose? The reality of Psalm 88, though, is that while these questions frequently go unanswered, God – in his son Jesus – walks through...
Psalm 132 describes the covenant that God made with David in 2 Samuel 7. But tied up with this promise is the condition that God himself will move into Jerusalem and make it his eternal home. But a short 80 years after God promises this to David the kingdom has been...
Although God himself is the king of Israel, they also long for a human king. So God gives them David. Eventually these two streams – God as king and a human as king – come together in God's Son and David's son, Jesus of Nazareth. Because of his...
God's plan to redeem the world, established by his covenant with Abraham, includes the conquest of the Gentiles – the promise that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow in all of creation. Two examples from the story of the Bible are the conversion of...
