There's something about death that make everyone suddenly religious. Even an atheist will ask God for help (if he does, in fact exist) when death comes knocking at the door. There's one thing constant ...

First, God was David’s shepherd (verse 1).

“Behold I am sending you as sheep among wolves”, says Jesus, as he commissions the seventy-two disciples to be his representatives in Israel. In doing so he coins what we could call the defining ...

Psalm 23 is one of the most beloved Scriptures in the entire Bible. Its simple, yet profound truths have provided comfort to millions for three millennia. My friends have plenty of ideas about what ...

MANY people, even those who don’t regularly attend church services, will recognise the hymn The Lord Is My Shepherd from the opening titles of The Vicar of Dibley. But it far outdates Geraldine ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...