I had always loved the Psalms. I turned to them for comfort, truth, praise, and to know God more deeply. Like many Bible readers, I also knew that Jesus quoted the Psalms more than any other Old Testament book. But eventually I found myself asking a different question:
How did Jesus actually use the Psalms?
The more I studied the New Testament, the more fascinating that question became. Across its 260 chapters, there are roughly 100 direct quotations from the Psalms and more than 400 references or allusions to them. No other Old Testament book is woven into the New Testament as extensively. If the Psalms were so central to Jesus and the early church, I wanted to understand why. And if Jesus knew them so intimately, I wanted to know them that way too.
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Evangelicals Serve Migrants and Neighbors After Ceuta Crisis — August 13: After roughly 80,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta — population 85,000 — in the final days of July, local evangelical churches are providing food and Arabic Scriptures to the thousands who remain. Pastor Javier Santolaria of Casa de Alabanza asked for continued prayer, saying the community needs “strength and to see the hand of God at work.” (Christian Today)
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Armenia Plans World’s Tallest Jesus Statue Amid Church-State Feud — August 10: Armenian tycoon and politician Gagik Tsarukyan, who received under 4% in recent elections, plans a 101-meter Jesus statue atop 2,500-meter Mount Hatis, calling it Armenia’s “calling card.” Meanwhile, Armenian Apostolic leader Catholicos Karekin II and six clerics face up to two years in prison for refusing to reinstate a defrocked bishop at the request of a court. The church calls the prosecution an assault on its autonomy. (Christian Daily; AP)
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Jesus and His disciples stirred up dust on the gravel roads as they approached the region of Caesarea Philippi. Picture the back-and-forth banter, the questions, and stretches of thought-provoking silence.
Suddenly, Jesus turned to His disciples and asked, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
“Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets” (Mt. 16:13–14 NLT).
Jesus halted the group, and they all gathered around Him. They sensed that another essential lesson was about to unfold. Jesus opened His hands before them and asked, “But who do you say I am?” (v. 15, emphasis mine).
Look what happened next.
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Outside Assisi, Italy, there’s a small stone chapel called San Damiano. It isn’t much to look at, really. It has a plain rosette window, rickety pews worn smooth by eight centuries of use, a Byzantine crucifix hanging over what’s left of an altar. According to legend, it was here that a restless young man named Francesco Bernardone heard Jesus speak to him from the cross. “Francis,” the voice said, “go and repair my house. You see it is falling down.”
Francis took those words literally. He spent the next several months hauling stones to patch San Damiano’s crumbling walls. Only later did he realize the house Jesus meant was a lot bigger than one chapel. It was the whole of Christendom, worn thin and badly in need of rebuilding — in an age that wasn’t so different from our own.
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Stillness makes many of us uncomfortable. To the optimization-minded, the pause of sleep can feel intrusive. We don’t like to be forced to stop.
Yet God — who certainly had no need to stop — stopped. He had limitless capacity to keep going, doing, and creating, endlessly tinkering like an artist with an infinite canvas and infinite ideas. But he did stop. Genesis 2:2–3 makes this clear by mentioning no less than three times that God did not work on the seventh day.
Clearly this is an important idea. But why? What does it mean that God rested from his work? God doesn’t sleep or grow weary (Isa. 40:28). He doesn’t need anything, including rest. And yet Genesis 2 is clear. God chooses rest. How are we to understand the meaning of this divine seventh-day rest?
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