Daniel Dessinger

Month: August 2009

  • Isn’t Twitter Just for Self-Absorbed Egomaniacs?

    More than any other objection, I hear people refuse to try Twitter because no one is THAT interesting. They don’t care if someone is going to the grocery store or getting their hair dyed. And they definitely don’t want to know that someone’s kid is getting potty trained (then don’t follow me). More often than […]

  • Psalm 4

    For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.

    Answer me when I call to you,
    O my righteous God.
    Give me relief from my distress;
    be merciful to me and hear my prayer.

    How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame?
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?
    Selah

    Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;
    the LORD will hear when I call to him.

    In your anger do not sin;
    when you are on your beds,
    search your hearts and be silent.
    Selah

    Offer right sacrifices
    and trust in the LORD.

    Many are asking, “Who can show us any good?”
    Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.

    You have filled my heart with greater joy
    than when their grain and new wine abound.

    I will lie down and sleep in peace,
    for you alone, O LORD,
    make me dwell in safety.

  • Psalm 3

    A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.

    1 O LORD, how many are my foes!
    How many rise up against me!

    2 Many are saying of me,
    “God will not deliver him.”
    Selah

    3 But you are a shield around me, O LORD;
    you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.

    4 To the LORD I cry aloud,
    and he answers me from his holy hill.
    Selah

    5 I lie down and sleep;
    I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.

    6 I will not fear the tens of thousands
    drawn up against me on every side.

    7 Arise, O LORD!
    Deliver me, O my God!
    Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
    break the teeth of the wicked.

    8 From the LORD comes deliverance.
    May your blessing be on your people.
    Selah

  • Psalm 2

    Psalm 2

    1 Why do the nations conspire
    and the peoples plot in vain?

    2 The kings of the earth take their stand
    and the rulers gather together
    against the LORD
    and against his Anointed One.

    3 “Let us break their chains,” they say,
    “and throw off their fetters.”

    4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
    the Lord scoffs at them.

    5 Then he rebukes them in his anger
    and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

    6 “I have installed my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

    7 I will proclaim the decree of the LORD :
    He said to me, “You are my Son;
    today I have become your Father.

    8 Ask of me,
    and I will make the nations your inheritance,
    the ends of the earth your possession.

    9 You will rule them with an iron scepter;
    you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

    10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
    be warned, you rulers of the earth.

    11 Serve the LORD with fear
    and rejoice with trembling.

    12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry
    and you be destroyed in your way,
    for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
    Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

  • Psalm 1

    Psalm 1

    1 Blessed is the man
    who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
    or stand in the way of sinners
    or sit in the seat of mockers.

    2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
    and on his law he meditates day and night.

    3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
    and whose leaf does not wither.
    Whatever he does prospers.

    4 Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff
    that the wind blows away.

    5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

    6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

    (New International Version)