Category: Praying the Psalms
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Day 118/148: A Songbook Big Enough (Psalms 88 and 118)
Because of the way the five Psalms a day reading plan is structured, I always read Psalm 88 and Psalm 118 back to back. But I was today years old before I was struck by the contrasts between them. God, in His great love for us, has given us a Psalter that has room for…
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Day 112: Empires of Dirt, Pillars of Sand (Psalm 10:12-15)
A Spurgeon Snapshot Before his death in 2003, Johnny Cash covered the song “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails. The haunting video shows the country legend, old, frail, voice quavering, sitting in a chair and playing his guitar. The footage is intercut with images of Cash at his most successful, vital, reckless, and young. There are…
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Day 110: What a Difference a Question Mark Makes (Psalm 121:1)
“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?”Psalm 121:1 ESV “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, From whence cometh my help.”Psalm 121:1 KJV My denomination once owned a conference center nestled in the Sangre de Cristo mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was blessed to…
