Your rod and your staff, they protect me. — Psalm 23:4 A shepherd’s daily tools were used for both offense and defense. The shepherd’s staff was used to nudge sheep along, pull a stray back, or even rescue one from a…

Even when I walk through a valley filled with shadows of death, I don’t need to be afraid because You are with me. —Psalm 23:4 Valleys and life-threatening shadows are inevitably ahead of us. Equally certain is God’s presence. Sometimes…

I fear no evil, for thou art with me.—Psalm 23:4 Our Psalm does not deny the reality of problems and struggles. It even addresses the reality of evil. But greater still is the reality that God is with us. Even during…

Even when I walk through the darkest valley—Psalm 23:4, CEB My grandmother was blind the last fifteen years of her life.  She had been an oil painter, mostly of landscapes where she thought my grandfather would like to go hunting.  Her…

Yesterday we thought together about what happens in Psalm 23:4 & 5, when its focus shifts.  A quick summary of that is an old saying: “Knowing the Bible is good.  Knowing the Author is better.”

“The Lord is (…)you.”—Psalm 23:1, 4 It’s Sunday morning as I post this blog. Good time to notice a major shift in traditional translations of Psalm 23. The first three verses talk about God. Verses 4 and 5 talk with God. Or, as…

After our quick visits with Ken Page and his mom here, let’s go back to our Psalm and pick up where we stopped. The rest and refreshment it says God gives us are ours for a reason. Of course. But…

I’d like to sit down for some coffee with you and Ken Page, whom I mentioned here yesterday. From that same interview: “Page saw actors sell their souls in L.A. ” ‘Everything in life is a choice,’ he remarks, ‘and…

Ken Page is St. Louis actor interviewed in The October 2012 issue of St. Louis Magazine. He’s been successful on both coasts, involved in both theater and film, and has recently settled back into living and working in St. Louis. His mother says,”It’s like taking a deep…

“You send me in the right direction.”  — Psalm 23:3, The Message A couple of days ago our Conference celebrated the arrival of our new Bishop. In his inspirational sermon at that outstanding service, Bishop Keaton reminded us that “we are…