“O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.” Psalm 51:15 September 22, 2022 Old familiar hymns sung hundreds of times over the years have a way of coming to mind out of the blue. One such hymn came to mind in looking through the Psalms with reference to the mouth, tongue, […]
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“His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.” Psalm 10:7 September 21, 2022 Imagine singing a hymn that would take you through a vivid description of the morally corrupt elements in our society. Yet this is what we find in almost half of Psalm 10 (a
“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.” Job 40:4 September 20, 2022 Our mouths can get us in trouble, especially when trials are raining down on us. We are told early on in Job’s suffering experience that he did not sin with his lips.
Then his wife said to him, ‘”Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Job
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“The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?” Amos 3:8 September 16-18, 2022 Prosperity can be a very dangerous thing. It can disguise flagrant rejections of God’s call to worship Him. Our nation has enjoyed over 250 years of a rise in prosperity and the opportunity
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“As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:18 September 15, 2022 Physical suffering is both a visible and an invisible experience. It can be explained this way:
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“For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.” 2 Corinthians 4:17 September 14, 2022 Hardships, distresses, beatings, imprisonments, labors, sleeplessness, hunger, in danger of death, thirty-nine lashes, shipwrecked, dangers from robbers, and much more. All this doesn’t sound like “light afflictions.” Imagine what Paul must have
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“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16 September 13, 2022 Do you need some encouragement? We all do. Even the apostle Paul with his dramatic conversion, having seen the resurrected Jesus, and his undaunted courage in the
“In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.” Isaiah 6:1 September 12, 2022 Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022. For seventy years she reigned as the Queen of England. I have vivid memories
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“And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside….And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the
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