By David Faust Psalm 27 Some fears are mislabeled. We call it “stage fright,” but we’re not afraid of the stage; we’re afraid of the audience. Children say they’re afraid of the dark, but their anxiety actually springs from the threats that lurk in the darkness, not from the lack of light itself. Since […]
The macro God in our micro world
By David Faust Psalms 19-22 According to Samford University preaching professor Dr. Robert Smith, “we have lost our sense of the mystery of God”—what he calls “the trembling adoration.” Our mistake? We “try to demystify the mystery, unscrew the inscrutable, and figure out the un-figure-out-able.” Psalm 19 invites us to ponder the mystery […]
Facing our own foolishness
By David Faust At first glance Psalm 14:1 sounds like a slap in the face to atheists: “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Something in me likes that verse—even finds smug satisfaction in it. “Take that, you hard-hearted philosophy professor spouting faith-killing theories in your Ivy League lecture hall! Wipe that […]
History at the crossroads
Another Look by David Faust We stand at a crossroads every day. Each sunrise confronts us anew with Joshua’s challenge: “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15). If you doubt the importance of personal choices, turn back the pages of the calendar and notice how decisions made in the past still […]
What Jesus said (and didn’t say) about hope
by David Faust In the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, there’s a sign containing a quote from a Tennessee farmer in about 1940: “The greatest thing in the world is to have the love of God in your heart. The next greatest thing to have is electricity in your house.” Hope electrifies a life, […]
