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Day 152: How to Pray for Your Children (Psalm 72)
If you knew you were nearing the end of your life and you had one last chance to pray over your child, what would you ask God for?
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Day 146: Nap Time (Psalm 131)
On the anniversary of my mom’s homegoing, this one hit hard today. There is a deep rest that comes from trusting God like a child at nap time—safe, held, and free from the weight of the world.
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Day 146: King James, The Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Case of the Missing Couplet (Psalm 145)
Did modern Bible translations “add” a missing verse to Psalm 145? Not exactly.
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Day 144: I am Prayer (Psalm 109:4)
People ask all the time, “How are you?” Usually we answer with emotions, circumstances, or clichés: “Fine.” “Busy.” “Tired.” But in Psalm 109:4, David answers differently. In Hebrew, he literally says, “I am prayer.”
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Day 141: Gentleness that Makes Me Great (2 Samuel 22:36)
Buried in the middle of all the military imagery of 2 Samuel 22 is a surprising turn: God’s gentleness made David great. God does not shape us through cruelty or intimidation, but through steadfast love, mercy, and kindness.
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Day 140: Going Deep (Psalm 42)
Deep calls to deep: when our deepest need is answered by God’s deepest grace.
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Day 145: An Inherited Occupation (1 Chronicles 23:28-32)
In a world obsessed with self-expression and personal fulfillment, the Levites remind us that calling is not always something we choose. Sometimes it is something we inherit.
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Friday Round-Up: What I’ve Read This Week
Why Was This the Theme this Week? For some reason, the theme of many of the blogs I follow seems to have been “Ministers and Moral Failure” this week. Here’s a few of the guys I keep up with: Pastor, author, and blogger Tim Challies wrote an insightful post on the unwritten rule that a…
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Day 340: Jealous With a Godly Jealousy (2 Corinthians 11:2)
Pastors, do you love your church like a father loves his daughter?
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From Your Pastor: Week of September 17
As I write this, I am reflecting on our first day together. What an amazing time of worship we had on Sunday! Guys, there were a lot of people here. I mean, a lot. I know that there were a lot of people who were just kind of test driving the new guy, but here’s…
66 in 52: A One Year Chronological Journey Through the Bible
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