The first thing the book of Psalms chooses to say about the righteous is that they do not follow the advice of the world, but they find pleasure in listening to God in his Word.

The combination of instruction with emotion in the Psalms.

You cannot worship and glorify the majesty of God while treating his supreme creation with contempt.

The glory of God is unique because of the lowly ways he chooses to show it.

We will reign with Christ and find our joy not in usurping God's majesty but in saying: “How majestic is your name in all the earth.”

When you value someone because they value God, you are not denying that God is your only good; you are expressing it.

What are some practical steps that we can take to stay alive to the beauty of God's world?

Through the sky God ministers humility and hope and healing and happiness.

When Satan huffs and puffs and tries to blow out the flame of your joy, you have an endless supply of kindling in the Word of God.

In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.

How do you deal with sin in your life if you love God?

It seems that with this passage of Scripture, more than any other, to recite it is also to experience its reality. The psalm itself is green pasture, the psalm itself is still water, the psalm itself restores my soul.

I feel myself drawn with David not so much to love the green pastures but the good shepherd, not so much to love the lavish banquet but the bountiful host, and not so much to love the trip to Miami or the bungalow but to love the highway patrolman.

The prerequisite for divine guidance is not a quest for messages, but a quest for holiness.

Don't be like the mule but run headlong to God in prayer while he may be found. For the contrite heart which prays will be forgiven and protected and taught the way to God and will be glad in the Lord forever.

A truth stripped of God is not a whole truth and will not guide the church well.

Envy steals your joy when you don't trust that God is doing what he has promised, namely, that which is best for you.

We're made of the same stuff as the saints of old, and they help guide us so that we persevere to the end.

Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.

Learn from the Psalmist how to fight for hope.

Practical steps you can take when you feel distant from God.

One of the reasons we invest our lives in some insignificant ways is that we never become still enough to let the great realities hit us.

If you trust Christ, you are already a permanent citizen of the heavenly Jerusalem.

Be thankful, pay your vows, call for help. And when God delivers you from the day of trouble, glorify him with all your heart.

Psalm 51 teaches us what it's like to be crushed with guilt well.

Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.

Authenticity and depth in worship characterize those who suffer with Christ by bearing the burdens of others.

God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.

Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.

When worship is reduced to a duty, it ceases to exist.

God blesses us so that the nations will be blessed.

How are we to understand the psalms that call down curses on others?

What does an all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made? That we cease to be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.

Some Scriptures can only be fulfilled by recognizing the generation gap and owning up to the fact that it is good.

Moment by moment, our vital union with Christ is sustained, shaped, and carried by the Word of God.

A wise son makes a glad father, says the Lord, and it is the Word of God that makes a son wise.

What is our calling as parents and as a community of Christians toward our children?

We are precious to God—so precious that he will not have us make that preciousness into our god.

God is more powerful than all the gods and he is more powerful than all the nations. On God's side you cannot lose.

Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.

God summons us to sing, and in doing so to summon the nations to sing a new song with us.

Education and knowledge should cause us to rejoice in God. If not, then they aren't fulfilling their purpose.

Perhaps nothing is more effective in helping children fear God than verbally blessing the Lord in their presence.

The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.

God rejoices in his works because his works are an expression of his glory.

How is abortion similar to the child-sacrificing in the Old Testament?

Jesus Christ is building his church around the world with missionaries.

It is by prayer that our eyes will be opened to see wonder in God's Word and be changed.

We need to see how the reality of imperfection turns up in the saints of Scripture and how they handled it.

Wherever there are people whose hearts are not fretful or anxious or in a resentful frenzy the world sits up and takes notice.

God is never constrained to do a thing that he despises. He does whatever he wants.

Don't let your sinfulness hinder your prayers. Run into the arms of God and fill his ear with arguments that aim for His honor.

It is the Biblical duty of every generation to make sure that the next generation hears about the mighty acts of God.

God delights in those responses which mirror his magnificence.

Since God created everything, we and all our so-called possessions are his to do with as he pleases.