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Sometimes All We Can Do Is Cry

PSALM 137:1 – By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.”   THEME OF THE DAY: SOMETIMES ALL WE CAN DO IS CRY.  Today’s scripture is the opening verse in a short but moving Psalm.  Derek Kidner, in his excellent commentary on the Psalm, wrote “Every line is alive with pain, whose intensity grows with…

Represent Him Well

PHILIPPIANS 1:15-21 – Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in…

Prayer And The Christian Life

COLOSSIANS 4:2 – Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;” THEME OF THE DAY: PRAYER AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.  How would we define prayer?  Talking to God?  Asking God for things or for Him to do something?  One of the best definitions on prayer ever penned came from the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.  Read over it…

Small Or Big Prayer Lives?

HOSEA 4:1-3 – Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Therefore the land mourns, and…

When Things Are Hard, Don’t Act

  PSALM 37:3-7a – Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. Be…