Tag: Prayer
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Day 140: The Body Keeps the Score (Psalm 38)
Long before modern psychiatrists gave it a clinical diagnosis, David understood how the body keeps score. In Psalm 38, he describes guilt in physical terms: aching bones, failing strength, throbbing heart. But while the body may keep score, grace doesn’t.
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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 131: Why The Pharisees Missed It, and Why We Sometimes do Too (Psalm 20)
The Pharisees knew the Scriptures well enough to recognize messianic language, but they could not imagine God fulfilling His promises in a way that didn’t match their expectations.
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Day 118/148: A Songbook Big Enough (Psalms 88 and 118)
God’s Word makes room for both deep lament and joyful praise—inviting us to bring every part of our experience to Him.
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Day 078: Why do Jews Face East When They Pray? (Deuteronomy 27:11-13)
East was Egypt. East was slavery. East was the wilderness. East was graves in the desert. And yet God used every step of that journey to make His people holy.
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Day 072: Taking God at His Word: The Mezuzah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
In Jewish law, there are precise regulations for where and how to place a mezzuzah— the box that holds God’s law. But the most important instruction for where to put God’s law is right there in the text itself.
