In many traditions, Psalm 51 is included in worship services that begin the season of Lent. Its author acknowledges messy buildup: “I recognize my faults” (v. 3, GNT). The psalmist situates our ...

David took another man's wife and arranged for her husband's death, yet he was called a man after God's own heart (2 Samuel ...

Some people think that you have to choose between science and religion, but that is not the case. This is the story ...

“10 Create a clean heart in me, God; put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me.” — Psalm 51:10 Did you know that there is a clean movement going on all around us? When it comes to a sink full of dirty ...

Adam’s reply, instead of being repentant and contrite, is, “The woman who you put here with me – she gave me fruit ... humbled heart” (Psalm 51:3-6, 12, 16, 19). Printed with permission ...

The Lenten season is known for many themes, one of which is repentance. Christians who celebrate Lent make a concerted effort to confess their sins to the Lord and to repent from them. Repentance ...

The word "create" is used three times here ... "In sin my mother conceived me," the repentant psalmist says in Ps. 51:7. The same word is used for the child before and after birth ("Brephos ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...