So Mad I Couldn’t See Straight!

I was so mad I couldn’t see straight! Have you ever heard or used that phrase before? Anger is such a common phenomenon in the human experience that one easily finds mention of it across ages and cultures. It shows up in song and poem. It emerges in the bedtime story. It still makes for…

Restore My Joy!

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil…

Smooth Talk; Crooked Walk

I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Everyone has heard…