But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer. For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!” For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me. I confess my iniquity; I am sorry…

But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice, and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness. The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord,…

As I have worked with students over the years, I have noticed that many go through seasons of spiritual dryness in which desires for attentiveness are thwarted by feelings that God is distant and unresponsive. Quiet times feel empty, small groups lifeless, worship songs stale, prayers fruitless and tiresome. Such times, of course, were not…

John Calvin (1509–1564) knew suffering. He was an outlaw in his beloved France; the magistrates of Geneva exiled him—only to beg him to return to “that cross on which I should have to die a thousand times each day.” His son died in infancy. He was a widower. And throughout the course of his career…

In his summary of Psalm 8, Theodore Beza (1519–1605) intertwines the teaching that the God of creation is the God of redemption with the doctrine of Christ’s two natures in the unity of his person. Beza demonstrates another example of a Christocentric hermeneutic in which the “exaltation” of humankind receives its meaning through the unity of…

Jesus is the center and substance of Scripture. For our forebears in faith this is an uncontroversial and essential assumption for exegesis. Apart from faith in Christ—itself a gift from the Spirit—Scripture will not open itself. And so, as Christopher Hall puts it, the church fathers and reformers “read Scripture through the prism of Christ’s…

What if the Gospels didn’t include Jesus weeping at Lazarus’ death? What if the story of Christ’s life simply did not include his crucifixion and those who wept with him along the way to Golgotha? What if the word suffering was removed from the Gospels and the epistles? What if the Psalms’ laments were omitted?…

Supporters of the Henry Center may be interested in the coming lecture hosted by the Jonathan Edwards Center at TEDS. David Barshinger, a PhD candidate at TEDS, will be giving the second lecture in the “New Directions in Edwards Studies” series on the significance of the Psalms in Jonathan Edwards’ gospel-centered, Scripture-saturated ministry. The lecture…