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Prayer & Praise 8/23/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord Jesus! I ask for grace to seek you, as I would for hidden treasure. I want to seek you, and you alone, O my God! I want to separate myself from all … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/16/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Risen and exalted Jesus, send down your ascension gifts. Or better, come down yourself and dwell among us. Set up your church in the earth, and in the hearts and souls of your … Continue reading
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Bible Shorts 8/14/2026
The Birth of Jesus Christ Scripture Reading: Matthew 1:1-25 Three times reference is made to Mary bringing forth a son. A woman had been instrumental in making man a sinner (Genesis 3:6); a woman was instrumental in bringing mankind a … Continue reading
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Basic Bible Doctrine 8/13/2026
Showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things (Titus 2:10). In the circumstances concerning the studying of Bible doctrine, I realize many do study in different ways and seem to get … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/09/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Blessed Lord Jesus! We know the redemption of your church was your one great goal and plan. You went forth before time began. In time, when you came in our flesh, still your … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 8/02/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Is it not so much better that the people of Jesus are what they are, that they may be better suited for your glory, and that their wants may give an opportunity for … Continue reading
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Basic Bible Doctrine 7/30/2026
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them (Isaiah 8:20). The only basis for doctrine, the only source of divine truth is the … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/26/2026
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers What will we say in return for the knowledge you have already given us, for the love you have already wrought in our hearts, if we are so happy as to know your … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/19/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Precious God, precious Jesus! What a love is here. O for grace, for love, for life, for every gift of my God and Savior. O that my lips would praise you constantly and … Continue reading
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Basic Bible Doctrine 7/17/2026
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Another question … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/12/2026
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers While I feel your sacred Spirit breathing on my heart, causing me to love you, I also feel the reality of this human, animal life. If ever I knew the appetite of hunger, … Continue reading
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Basic Bible Doctrine 7/05/2026
Why Study Doctrine? – 2 If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). Sound doctrine is necessary for godly behavior, too. I do not doubt that people may live in an outwardly moral, religious manner without … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 7/05/2026
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers My God, what can I say to you—except that I love you more than words can express? I love you for what you are to all your creatures. In all their forms and … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/28/2026
Philip Doddridge: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers As often as we are tempted to run from serving you, Lord, let us remember the price with which we are bought. How great a price, the thought of which fills us even … Continue reading
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Basic Bible Doctrine 6/21/2026
If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3). I guess the first question we should ask is, why should we study doctrine? People often object to any talk about doctrine and the study of doctrine, because … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/21/2026
Jeremiah Burroughs – John Owen: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord, today you have set before me out of your word a glorious mystery—a righteousness of your Son that I did not know or care about before. I see now … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/14/2026
Anthony Burgess: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers O Lord, I bless you, not only for your pardon of those sins I have committed, but also for your goodness in preserving me from those many thousands of other sins I was … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 6/07/2026
Anne Bradstreet: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers My thankful heart with glorying tongue Will celebrate your name, Who has restored, redeemed, re-cured From sickness, death, and pain. I cried; you seemed to take some pause, I sought more earnestly. And … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/31/2026
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers You, Lord, are too rich to need anything from your creatures, and you have yourself already bought the most costly things with a price no less dear than your own most precious blood. … Continue reading
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Prayer & Praise 5/24/2026
Richard Alleine: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers What is left, O Lord, but to spend the rest of my days loving, praising, and admiring you? But how can I come before the Lord, or bring myself before the most high … Continue reading
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