Author: James
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Children That Won’t Wander: Psalm 126-128
Part of “Summer in the Psalms” series, 2019. James Jackson, Glynwood Baptist Church, Prattville, AL I know what you are thinking. You see the screen that says Psalm 126-128 and you’re thinking, “Come on. It took us two weeks to cover Psalm 19, and now we’re going to cover three Psalms in one week? Right!”…
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Day 109: “Shrewd” in Psalm 18:26– How to Do a Deep Dive Word Study, and When you Should Do One
“With the faithful you prove yourself faithful, with the blameless you prove yourself blameless, with the pure you prove yourself pure, but with the crooked you prove yourself shrewd.” Psalms 18:25-26 CSB In Psalm 18, there is a verse that often leaves me scratching my head. In verses 25-26, David, under the inspiration of the…
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Psalm 63: Worship in the Wilderness (or, How to Deal With the Desert)
Part of a series I preached in the summer of 2019. This was pre-Covid, so this is just audio with the PowerPoint. When God seems distant, can we still worship? A six point battle plan for how to deal with seasons in the wilderness. Good morning. If you have your Bibles, please turn to Psalm…
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Day 107: Abigail in the Gap (1 Samuel 25-27)
32 And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand! 34 For as surely as the Lord, the…
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Day 106: To the Chief Musician (Psalms 56, 120, 140-142)
“Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah” Psalm 140:1-3 ESV Of the one hundred and fifty Psalms, more than a…
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Day 105: Of Strongholds and Footholds (Psalm 7, 27, 31, 34, 52)
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold[a] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 Whenever we talk about spiritual warfare or temptation, we often lead people to identify strongholds in their lives—besetting sins, areas of temptation, or places we haven’t fully…
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Day 104: None Like it, Give it To Me (A Spurgeon Snapshot): 1 Samuel 21:9
“David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king’s mission was urgent.” The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod.…
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Day 103: When The Foundations are Shaken (1 Samuel 18-20; Psalm 11, 59)
“For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart. When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:2-3, NIV For several years I’ve tried to maintain the discipline of reading through the Psalms each month, doing…
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Day 102: You Are Not David, and That’s REALLY Good News (I Samuel 15-17)
Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” 10 And the Philistine said, “I defy…
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Day 101: Two Leadership Lessons from Saul (1 Samuel 13-14)
13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his…