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Psalm 3:1-4 (HCSB) (A psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.)   O LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”  But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up…

Something I hadn’t noticed before, in the morning scripture reading.  Follow this now: Mark chapter 6.  Jesus’s disciples watch him feed 5000+ people with five loaves and two fish, which was enough to feed everyone and leave 12 baskets of leftovers.  Later that night, as the disciples cross the Sea of Galilee, Jesus comes walking…

“If you’ve ever longed to praise God in a deeper, more intimate way, this devotional can help you.”  So begins a book I began recently.  This claim, or something very much like it, is common.  In my experience, most devotionals don’t live up to their billing. But that may be more due to the fact that…

Psalm 2:  “Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain” against God and His Anointed? Because they hate being told that they are sinful. They hate having someone else telling them what to do and who to be. They hate not being in control of their own lives. They hate submitting to…

. . . that I would change the world with some great thing that I would do. The dreams of a young man with a wide-open future can be mighty big. And they die without even being noticed. Pink Floyd sang it well – – “And then one day you find ten years have got…

>Weakness is humbling. No, more than that . . . it’s embarrassing. It’s terrifically difficult to say, “I need help,” when the help you need is for something you think you should be able to do. It starts when we’re small. “I do it!”, the toddler sternly declares. A few years later, “Nooooo! Let meeeeeee!”…

>“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep…

>Picture Jesus saying those words. Kinda hard to. “So what? I don’t care.” Now, it doesn’t translate just that way in Matthew 15, but that’s what he’s saying. He’s in the middle of raking the religious leaders over the coals for their hypocrisy (again), and calls some folks around him and tells them “Get this…

>Don’t want to let this go without saying something about it. Like you, sometimes I come thru a time of scripture reading or sermon listening or lesson hearing, and just get absolutely NOTHing out of it. Sometimes it’s the preacher or teacher’s fault, for being dull or unorganized or lightweight or any number of things.…

>Apparently my brain is already taking the holiday. I’ve done my reading, but I’ve got nothin’. Lots of note-taking material in today’s passages, some good teaching material for a larger context, but as for the purposes of this blog-in-progress, I’ve got nothin’. How ’bout you? Did you read the passages? What struck you or stood…
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