Scripture Meditation
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All in due season
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled Don’t Give Up. As Christians, sometimes we can get discouraged by what we see in our churches. When we look at the church in America, we don’t have to look far to find problems. Discipleship is shallow. Evangelism is ineffective or lacking altogether. Conversions are in
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Don’t give up
The past couple of weeks at church have been somewhat discouraging for me. Attendance—while never “high”—has been abnormally low the past several weeks. Since Christmas, it seems that the attendance has dropped each week. This week was the lowest. I had three kids in Sunday School today, including one of
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Why Do We Pray?
Much has happened over the last couple weeks that is worth comment, but I will contain my comments to one particular event which happened the last Sunday before Christmas (12/18/11). I had been leading the youth in preparation of a Christmas play/cantata that we were to perform that Sunday. We were about 10 minutes into
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Sin is serious
Today as I was reading in the Psalms, something I read brought Isaiah 53 to mind, so I flipped to the passage and continued my reading there. Isaiah 52:13-54:3 is probably my favorite of the many Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament which speaks of how Christ’s atonement brought gentiles
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“But I say to you…Love your enemies…”
As New Testament believers, we often classify the words of Christ in Luke 6:27-28 as part of the group of Christ’s teachings which were radical reformations of Old Testament (OT) Law. We all too often assume that it was biblically acceptable in OT times to hate those who had wronged
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God Answers Prayer
One of the passages that I read today was Psalm 120. It is, as are many other psalms, a prayer for God’s deliverance of the psalmist from wicked men who seek his life. One thing that I really took note of while reading this psalm was the very first verse:
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God is my refuge
Today as I was reading Psalm 59, an obvious truth struck me that I have overlooked so many times in my reading of the Psalms. Oftentimes when I have read psalms of David I have noted in passing that some of his psalms are from times of extreme difficulty, especially