Be Still, and Know
A short command from an old psalm asks us to stop, and tells us why.
psalms
44 pieces
Devotional
The Rest That Finds You Tired
When the day has already taken more than you had to give, the invitation of Christ is not a task but a resting place.
Be Still, and Know
An ancient line, written for a frightened people, asks us to stop before it asks us to understand.
Be Still: A Word for the Tired Reader
Psalm 46 answers a restless heart not with a task but with a stillness that holds steady when everything else shakes.
Bible study
When a House of Worship Is Rebuilt
A rededicated church invites us to ask what makes any building holy, and what holds when the walls do not.
Bible study
Be Still: What It Means to Wait Well
A short study on stillness, and why resting in God is an act, not an absence of one.
Be Still, and Know
A single line from Psalm 46 asks us to stop long enough to remember who holds the world.
Bible study
What Stones Can and Cannot Prove
A study on the place of evidence in a faith that was always meant to rest on more than evidence.
Devotional
The Work of Being Still
Rest is not the absence of effort but a discipline we have to learn, and the psalms give us room to practise it.
Bible study
Be Still: Learning to Rest Before God
Stillness is not idleness; it is the discipline of trusting God when we would rather act.
Devotional
The Hardest Command Is to Be Still
When the day asks more of us than we have, Scripture does not tell us to try harder, but to stop.
A Prayer for the Tired Evening
A short prayer for anyone who comes to the end of the day with more weight than words.
Be Still, and Know
An ancient line invites us to stop striving long enough to remember who holds the world.
Be Still, and Know
A single line from the Psalms asks us to stop, and to trust that God is still at work when we are not.
Bible study
Be Still, and Know
A short line from an old song of trust asks us to stop before it asks us to believe.
Be Still, and Know
A single line from an old song for a nation under pressure asks the tired to stop, and to let God be God.
Bible study
When the Word Is Sung but Not Changed
A project has set the entire Bible to music across many styles without altering a single word, and that restraint is worth sitting with.
Bible study
The Name God Gives Himself
Before we describe God, Scripture invites us to listen to how God has described himself.
Bible study
Enough for Today
A single line from an old psalm offers a way to measure a day that feels short on everything.
Bible study
When the Word Is Sung
A new website that sets scripture to song has drawn a million plays in a fortnight, and the practice it revives is older than any of us.
Be Still, and Know
A single line from the Psalms asks us to stop before it asks us to trust.
Bible study
Receiving the Whole of Scripture
A study on why the church plans to hear all of God's word, and gives thanks that it can be read at all.
My Strength and My Song
The first recorded worship of the redeemed people begins with a personal claim.
Questions
Do You Not Care That We Are Drowning
The disciples' question in the storm is one many believers have asked, and it deserves a slow, honest answer.
Bible study
Asleep on a Cushion
The one detail Mark adds about Jesus in the storm says a great deal about him.
Bible study
Who Is This
The calming of the storm ends not with relief but with a question, and Mark wants us to answer it.
Bible study
Who Can Forgive Sins
The scribes' objection in Mark 2 is theologically correct, which is exactly the point.
Bible study
A Table in the Presence of My Enemies
A study of the second half of Psalm 23, where the shepherd becomes a host
I Lack Nothing
Psalm 23 begins with a claim that sounds impossible until you look at who is making it
Family
Praying With Your Children Before They Are Old Enough to Understand
Psalm 20 is a blessing spoken over someone else, and it offers a pattern for the household
Chariots, Horses, and the Name
Psalm 20 names the two things a nation trusts and then chooses a third
The Words of My Mouth
Psalm 19 ends with a prayer that covers what we say and what we think
Devotional
June: Walking the Path of Life
This month FaithDaily takes Psalm 16:11 as its theme and asks what it means to walk with God through an ordinary summer
The Path of Life
Psalm 16 ends with a sentence that describes everything a human being is looking for
Mindful of Us
Psalm 8 puts a human being under the night sky and asks the obvious question
Living
Say a Psalm at the Pillow
One small evening practice that puts Scripture between you and the night
A Shield Around Me
David wrote Psalm 3 while running for his life, and he still called God his glory
Delight Is the Difference
Psalm 1 opens the whole Psalter with a picture of a person who wants God's word more than they fear it
