Psalm 70 & 71 – Preparation for Old Age

Have you ever stopped and wondered what old age is going to look like for you?

Some people are closer to it than others, of course. But even if you feel decades away, Psalm 70 and Psalm 71 press the same question into every generation: Are you preparing to live faithfully when your strength fades?

These psalms are not vague religious poetry meant for “later.” They are the prayers of a man facing real danger, real enemies, real weakness, and still trying to worship with integrity. And that makes them surprisingly practical. They teach how to respond when life gets harder, not just how to feel spiritual when life is comfortable.

Luke 23:50-24:12 – The Resurrection of Christ

If the Christian faith had one central “anchor point,” it would be this: Jesus is not only alive in some vague spiritual sense. The resurrection is presented in Scripture as a bodily resurrection. A real body was crucified. A real body was washed and wrapped. A real body was laid in a tomb. And that body is gone.

That emphasis matters because the gospel is not merely advice about how to live. It is a historical proclamation about what God has done in Christ.

Luke 23:26-49 – The Death of Christ

If the cross has become “ordinary” in your mind, Luke 23 is meant to take the lid off that familiarity. Not by overwhelming you with new facts, but by reintroducing you to what is holy, heavy, and glorious. This section of Luke gives us the historical account of Jesus’ crucifixion and death, and it does something else too: it keeps insisting that Christ’s death was never merely tragic. It was purposeful, theological, and deeply personal.

In Luke 23, you do not just watch Jesus suffer. You watch how He speaks, how He prays, and how His approach to death reaches people who seem least likely to respond: a man who is forced to carry the cross, women mourning along the road, a hardened criminal, and even a Roman centurion.

Luke 22:21-30 – Jesus’ Instructions to His Disciples

Right before Jesus is arrested, He gathers His disciples for final instructions. It is not a casual moment. The weight of the cross is near, betrayal is about to happen, and Satan is actively hunting for weaknesses. And yet, in Luke 22, you can still feel how easy it is for people to drift into the wrong priorities.

The disciples hear what is coming, but their minds are not fully awake. They start wrestling over who is the greatest. That is where Jesus meets them: not with harsh condemnation, but with teaching, correction, and a picture of what true greatness actually is.

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 – The Feast of Passover

There is something both simple and serious about the Bible’s picture of worship. God does not tell His people to “go through the motions.” He gives feasts for a reason: to make the past unmistakably real, to train the present, and to point the future toward Christ.

In Deuteronomy 16 , Moses focuses on the Feast of Passover and how Israel is to remember God’s redemption from Egypt. But the deeper story does not stop in the Old Testament. The New Testament teaches that the Passover was always pointing toward something greater: Christ Himself . As Paul puts it, “Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us” (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Psalm 69:1-36 – Lessons From Suffering

Psalm 69 is kept in Scripture not as antiquarian reading but as practical instruction for how God’s people are to live through seasons of pain, rejection, and trial. Read two ways, it teaches two things at once: how suffering shapes a faithful soul (think David) and how suffering saves the world (think Jesus). Both perspectives are meant to form us—our prayers, our patience, our zeal, and our posture before God and our neighbors