Marcos Schultz

My friend Neal had a keen observation about Ps 34.4. “I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.” Ps 34.4 I had been wondering […]

A story is told of a young Robert Lewis Stevenson who spent much of his childhood in poor health. One night his nurse found him with his nose pressed against

“For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” 1 Peter 2.25 Yesterday I wrote emphasizing the importance of returning. Today

“For you were straying like sheep but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” 1 Peter 2.25 My eyes are drawn to the word “returned” in this

Peter’s readers are going through suffering in 1 Peter. They are experiencing persecution for their Christian faith. Peter further tells us that we have been called to put up with this yuck.

Psalm 37:4 says to me something different than what it seems to say to others. “Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

David has three suggestions for God, about what to remember and what to forget.  Remember Your mercy & love. Don’t remember how I blew it so much in my past.

Peter sure gives us something to wrestle with in 1 Peter 2:18-19 when we pokes holes and undermines everything we “know” about justice and fairness.  “Go ahead and submit yourselves

Today, want to focus on one short verse in a Psalm of David. I see myself in this one short verse, in which David has much to say with but

In my never-so-humble opinion, we are ever-so-ready to draw lines in the sand between us, and those who do not follow Jesus. Us and them. The good guys (obviously you

“Live as people who are free… but living as servants of God.” 1 Peter 2.16a and 16.c I am free. Trusting in Jesus Christ gives me freedom from sin. I

Last week, after 55 years of Bible reading, I came across this verse “for the first time.” David writes so poetically in what is subtitled as a “Shiggaion of David, which