Philip Dampier's Blog

“Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!” (Psalm 146:1) The psalms have given us many reasons to praise the Lord as well as many ways. The psalms have reminded us that all of God’s creation praises God, and the only exception is mankind. Of all the creation, mankind…

“The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.” (Psalm 145:20) There are two kinds of people in the world, and there have always been these two kinds of people. Simply put by the psalmist, there are those who love God and those who don’t.…

“O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?” (Psalm 144:3) Forget for a minute that you have heard this verse in connection with the coming of the Messiah and ask the question for yourself. Phrase it this way, “O…

“Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.” (Psalm 143:10) We may occasionally have a problem understanding what the will of God is but its not really a major hindrance in our walk with God. Throughout history, mankind…

“I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.” (Psalm 142:2) We know there are psalms of lament and this is one of them. The question is, how did David and others get the nerve to complain to God. I dare say must of us were…

“Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!” (Psalm 141:3) We go to the book of James in the New Testament and discover that controlling our tongue is more than an easy challenge. In fact, James makes it such an accomplishment that…

“I say to the Lord, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O Lord.” (Psalm 140:6) First things first is a good way to proceed. To get mercy is to plea for it, but to hear the pleas for mercy God has to…

“Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.” (Psalm 139:16) There is so much here isn’t there? We argue when a person is a person, and God says…

“For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.” (Psalm 138:6) God’s power, His intelligence, His wisdom, His position of ruler of the earth and heavens do not make him conceited. God does not turn His back on us or snub us…

“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” (Psalm 137:4) Is it that they don’t know the words now that they are in captivity? No, that’s not it. Have they forgotten the tune for the words? No, that’s not the problem either. Is there some relationship between…