This is the second time I am writing on Psalm 149. You can search the A Plain Account website to find that first essay/commentary and compare and contrast it with this one. As I was researching this time around a pastor, author and theologian named Brian Zahnd came to mind. One of his coined phrases is “God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We have not always known what God is like— But now we do.” This is one of those...

I love weather. When I was a child, I wanted to be a meteorologist. Every aspect of weather fascinated me. Growing up in Omaha, NE for...

Scripture transcends time and space. It was meant originally for the primary readers, but it finds a way of translation into our given...