Midweek Musings Series: The 23 rd Psalm Introduction to the Series Over the next few weeks for our Midweek Musings, I will be doing a series that was born from a request someone made as a group of us were standing outside the church one Sunday after worship. On this particular Sunday one of our readings in the service was the 23 rd Psalm. The individual noted they had heard and read that beloved Psalm many, many times yet realized that there were parts of it that they weren

Midweek Musing: Treasures That Last In his book The Road to Character , New York Times columnist David Brooks contrasts two sets of virtues. He dubs them the “resumé virtues” and the “eulogy virtues.” Resumé virtues are the achievements the world tells us to pursue—success, status, wealth, and recognition. These are the things that look impressive on paper but often fade quickly with time. Many of these can be measured. Researchers would say this was quantitative data. Eulogy