Last year I read the Psalms, one each day. I tried to focus in on one phrase to be a prayer for me for that day. I called it "Praying the Psalms". Lately, I have started this practice again. This time, I focused in on the phrase "Steadfast Love".
I have always been attracted to this phrase. It shows us 140 times in the Psalms. It captures my mind for two reasons. First, steadfast means it will not change. It is firm and unchanging. It remains. The object of the love has no bearing the love.
Secondly, it does not need to change. Steadfast love means that the giver of love does not need to change in order to completely satisfy its object. I do not have the ability to love someone steadfastly, because my love is sometime conditional and sometimes not fulfilling or satisfying to the object of my love. In short, I fail. With my church, my friends, my kids and my wife. I try to love them well, but I do fail.
To have steadfast love, is to not fail. This is the love that the Psalms talk about 140 times.
I will be continuing to Pray the Psalm using #praythepsalms and #steadfastlove. Feel free to jump in on those hashtags.
Thanks for reading.
A Journey to the Cross
This Friday April 18 is Good Friday. North Church will join with Trinity Church to once again celebrate Good Friday. This year will be considerably different.
We are calling the night "A Journey to the Cross." The idea is that we separate into a few groups and we will engage the timeline of the events that happened that night. From the Last Supper to the death of our Savior and all that happened between those events.
We will do this along different stops. You and the group you are in will move from different rooms inside Trinity Church and hear the story of the Garden of Gethsemane, the various trials Jesus endured, the beating of Jesus and Jesus' suffocation and the cross.
We hope to see you there as we engage Jesus and his journey to the cross. Trinity Church is located at 3515 Shackelford Road in Florissant. We will begin at 6:30. Child care will be provided from children 7 and under.
We are calling the night "A Journey to the Cross." The idea is that we separate into a few groups and we will engage the timeline of the events that happened that night. From the Last Supper to the death of our Savior and all that happened between those events.
We will do this along different stops. You and the group you are in will move from different rooms inside Trinity Church and hear the story of the Garden of Gethsemane, the various trials Jesus endured, the beating of Jesus and Jesus' suffocation and the cross.
We hope to see you there as we engage Jesus and his journey to the cross. Trinity Church is located at 3515 Shackelford Road in Florissant. We will begin at 6:30. Child care will be provided from children 7 and under.
