In the Good News Bible, this psalm is headed, 'The prayer of an innocent person'. This is a fair description: the psalmist is convinced that God knows his heart and 'found no evil desire in me' (verse 3). He says he has 'alwa...

We're in another wisdom psalm today, and this time the lesson is about how you relate to God. In short, the wisdom is: with gratitude!

One of the characteristics of the book of Psalms is a deep honesty about human experience. There's grief, anger and pain in the Psalms, but also joy and hope.

In Psalm 15, the focus moves away from endurance in the face of attack to an emphasis on God's blessings. 'Lord, who may enter your Temple? Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?' the psalmist asks (verse 1).

In his book Reflections on the Psalms, CS Lewis said: 'I take this to be the greatest poem in the Psalter and one of the greatest lyrics in the world.' There are, he points out, six verses about nature, five about the law and four of person...

Psalms 20 and 21 are prayers for the king, written at a time when an absolute ruler was a far more significant figure than a modern prime minister or president. There certainly laws and customs he would have been wise to abide by – as King Ahab fou...

While God’s mercy is affirmed in the book of Lamentations 3.21–24, Dr Heath Thomas explores how the cry of 'kyrie eleison!' can become a model for the Church today.

Someone has said that it’s possible to live for 40 days without food, three days without water and eight minutes without air – but only one second without hope. Here are eight Bible verses about hope.

The Hebrew title of this psalm relates it to God's preservation of David in the face of Saul and his other enemies. God is envisaged as a mighty warrior, fighting irresistibly for the psalmist and overcoming his foes.

Pray for Ukraine

Tom Newbold has taken on the Bible in a year plan. We caught up with him to find out how it's going six weeks in.

Tom's almost finished reading the whole Bible! We get his last update, a little early...

Looking for Bible readings for your Christmas services, present labels or Christmas cards? Start here.

Starting Bible Book Club but don’t know where to begin? Here are some ideas…

Inspired by ancient spiritual words found in the Bible, our guided meditation invites you to reflect on sources of joy in your life while giving you space to explore the concept of spiritual joy ...

People have been translating the Bible for hundreds of years. Read how the English translation of the Bible came to be.

Tom Newbold is attempting to read the Bible in a year. We caught up with him in month 3 to find out how it's going so far.

Christians believe that when they read the Bible God speaks. If you are new to Bible reading as a Christian it is important to recognise that it is slightly different to reading other books.

Fat kings, conquering kingdoms and comfort in the words of Jesus: it's all been going on for Tom during May.

My wife and I were consultant surgeons in a Christian hospital in Iran in the 1970s. We lived in Isfahan. We liked everything about it. It was a green city set in the desert.