Drew Brown

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God […]

…he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted…Isaiah 61:1 It’s a dangerous assumption to think that Jesus only ministers to brokenhearted people, and not the brokenhearted people who are serving the brokenhearted. We might go so far as to say that Jesus must minister to us doubly – because we don’t have the strength […]

My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Psalm 42:6 In his commentary on Psalm 42, John Calvin writes, “The soul of man serves the purpose, as it were, of a workshop to Satan in which to forge a thousand methods of […]

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 Normally we apply these verses to ourselves in the context of individual temptation: thoughts of a temper tantrum, a one night stand, or […]

O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them. Isaiah 26:16 “Fervor and noise are not necessarily spiritual companions.” When we’re under the hand of the Lord’s discipline, our prayers can become like whimpers. We long for those days of spirited prayer when, like the Psalmist, […]

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. Psalm 38:4 Daily we come face to face with a burden that is too heavy for us to bear: our sins. This Psalm testifies to our inherit inability to lift even the smallest burden of sin off […]